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"COMMUTE. The dictionary says it's the line that joins home to work.
The small print says something else: from the Latin, commutare, 'to change'.
The transformation starts the moment you leave the still waters of back
streets. There you are a partner, a parent, a homeowner, but paddle out into
the main channel of the morning traffic and the peloton soon envelops you.
For the next 40 minutes you are the Hinault of the highway, the Pantini of the
on-ramp, the Merckx of the middle lane. In the office, your desk is occupied
by another self: lawyer, banker, professional. But come the evening they will
rise again: Badger, Pirate, Cannibal. Commutare."