Quickness Emblem

Striking Resemblance

Sonic the Hedgehog. Calvino’s use of quickness speaks of how the manifestations of quickness used to be horses but has evolved  to cars and trains and other means of transportation. I found that in my life quickness always manifests itself as a spiky haired blue hedgehog named Sonic. Sonic is the hero of the self titled Sega Genesis series of games.
Sonic exemplifies both lethargy and speed as real life hedgehogs move methodically (perhaps not so much as the infamous sloth) but in his adventures he has come to possess super-human (super-hedgehog?) speed; Sonic can run faster than the speed of sound!