Team time trials.
Which team will be the fastest?
Belle stands at the finish with Terence.
Terence is bored.
He has finished his mazes and asked all his riddles.
He looks down.
His little cement feet are restless.
He looks up.
What's that thing? asks Terence.
Team Ineos crosses the finish line.
Woo! That's a top time!
Belle looks where Terence is looking.
The Atomium, says Belle. Later on, I might take you inside it.
I want to go NOW! says Terence.
A clown is standing behind them.
I'll take him, says the clown. I can get in for nothing.
Thanks, but no thanks. says Belle. I don't know you.
You do, says the clown.
Marcel Proust, for a wonder!
The time trials have barely started, says Marcel. With your permission, dear Belle, I will take him to the top sphere where he can gaze at the entire panorama of Bruxelles and compare it to photographs of how it looked in 1958 when the structure was first built for the Expo, following which I shall lead him through tubes to the various exhibitions including a sound and light show although I ought to warn you that inside the tubes there is often an unpleasant smell....
Off you go then, says Belle, cutting him off mid-sentence. I'll be waiting right here.
Terence scowls.
Boo. People might think the clown is his grandpa.
Belle waits.
Team Philosophe crosses the finish line.
In a really slow time.
Belle claps encouragingly.
Eels, mouths Vello, rubbing his belly.
Even Nietzsche looks green.
She resolves not to buy eels again.
....
Looks like Team Ineos has clocked the best time, and Deceuninck-Quickstep the second. Just one more team to finish.
Here they come now, this is amazing!
It's Team Jumbo-Visma in black and yellow. Have they got rockets behind them?
They smash it by a good twenty seconds.
Teunisson will keep the yellow jersey.
Belle looks up at the Atomium to see if Terence is by chance looking down.
But Terence is passing through a smelly tube with a clown at the moment.
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