From high to low, always in high gear.

We do not all agree on what a high gear or low gear means. A car mechanic, a company consultant or a kitchen chef, all may have a slight variation on the theme when they engage different cogs.

But moving fast, swaying slow, sliding easy or hitting every bump, all seem pretty clear in any realm or activity (though some may prefer to use their jargon to describe these).

Today’s pace may be tomorrow’s race, and that race could be the crawl of eons when we look back on it.

Automatic transmission. Infinitely variable ratios make smoothness out of the abrupt hiccups of gear changes.

Soft fiction or firm dissection and analysis perhaps.