“To get in cars and drive down roads all over the country, all over the world, to drive just as slowly as the law will allow – although the law, especially as it pertains to speed limits, is not something Edward Bloom respects: twenty in town is too fast for him; the highways are madness. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can’t realize what is already here, outside the car window?”
