Troika Trails

What we need is a Snail Race!

The thing about snail races is that snails don’t actually really like being all that competitive or particularly fast. Even the racing snails, the ones that want to get out and get things done don’t have much patience for being lonely, even if they are deeply introverted. Snails contain multitudes. They come around to the idea very slowly, and when racing, it looks different than most concepts of what constitutes a race.

At the heart of this game are two things (like two sides to the hermaphrodism that snails are), snails like to be intensely introverted and they like to go slowly. In my snail races, most snails intend to arrive together at the end, whether or not there’s some kind of winner (sometimes there are winners… but even that winning can be very inclusive). Most of the time it will be a challenge to arrive at all, and with everyone intact, which is the real win.