One of the passages I'm thinking of from The Stand: == Halfway there a thought rose to the surface of his mind like a bubble and popped. It happened casually,

One of the passages I'm thinking of from The Stand: == Halfway there a thought rose to the surface of his mind like a bubble and popped. It happened casually, with no fanfare, but the implications brought him to a dead halt. The thought was: Why haven't you been riding a bicycle? He stood in the middle of the lawn, equidistant from the stream and the house, flabbergasted by the simplicity of it. He had been walking ever since he had ditched the Harley. Walking, wearing himself out, finally collapsing with sunstroke or something so close to it that it made no difference. And he could have been pedaling along, doing no more than a fast run if that's what he felt like, and he would probably be on the coast now, picking out his summer house and stocking it. ==