In cycling, an endo is a trick that involves the rider lifting the rear wheel into the air while the front wheel stays grounded. It is similar to another trick called the stoppie, and is sometimes called a front wheelie. One is performed by harshly engaging the front brake and leaning forward. The rider then tries to balance by shifting his weight and keeping the rear wheel as high as possible. If the rider does not have a front brake, he then just jams his foot in between the tire and front fork while pushing forward.
"Endo" can also refer to a typically violent crash caused by improperly landing with the front wheel first after a jump. With the rear wheel high enough in the air upon landing, a moving bike has the tendency to throw the rider over the handlebars and flip end over end (hence the name).
Endos can also be accomplished without front brakes with the aid of a curb.
Endo- is a prefix referring to something internal in the body, e.g. endocrinology (secretion inside the body). Endo- is the opposite of exo-, a prefix referring to something external, such as an exoskeleton.
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Endo's "moral weaklings" continually restage the problematic encounter between Japanese and western understandings of self and God, an encounter which, as Endo's work develops, comes to be increasingly characterised by an ongoing interrogation of the word "betrayal".
By the time Endo reached the second half of his career it was clear that the defining theme of his oeuvre was the yawning chasm between the internal contradictions and pressures of Japanese life on the one hand, and the world of Christianity and Europe on the other.
Together with Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Shotaro Yasuoka, Junzo Shono, Hiroyuki Agawa, Ayako Sono, and Shumon Miura, Endo is categorized as one of the Third Generation, the third major group of writers who appeared after the Second World War.
Endo studied French literature at the University of Lyon from 1950 to 1953.
In fact, Graham Greene has personally labeled Endo one of the finest writers of the 20th century.
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