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Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

This strange person quarrels with a cyclist because the latter is using the path rather than the highroad.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Piepsam's fatal rage arises not only because he cannot stop the cyclist, but also because God will not stop him ; ;

Piepsam calls the cyclist `` cur '' and `` puppy '' among other things, and at the crisis of his fit a little fox-terrier stands before him and howls into his face.

The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.

But he is more interesting than the others, the ones who come from the highroad to watch him, more interesting than Life considered as a cyclist.

* 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1982 – Damien Monier, French cyclist

* 1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist

* 1973 – Stuart O ' Grady, Australian cyclist

* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist

* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

* 1971 – Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist

* 1982 – Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Belorussian cyclist

* 1985 – Grega Bole, Slovenian cyclist

* 1972 – Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist

* 1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, French racing cyclist ( b. 1870 )

* 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist ( d. 1927 )

* 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist

* 1977 – Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist

* 1972 – Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist