Sex or Biking?

Well, it's the latter, obviously, and from an amazing series of Tour de France photographs by Brent Humphreys. But it does indicate the rather short visual distance between agony and ecstasy. A more extreme example: Sex or Death?

And now a bit wider:

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Mark Lamster is a writer on the arts and culture. He is Associate American Editor of The Architectural Review, and is currently at work on his third book, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. Follow: @marklamster.
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