Subject: Re: archives:Di Maggio or Dostoyevsky
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 11:31:35 GMT
I haven't checked, but I'd be willing to bet that the acknowledged giants of
Russian Literature inspire seaweed-like strands of quirky cybercommunication
as often as baseball statistics here in the bananafishbowl (and probably
more often than Bobby Jones' great victory in 1930, to win the British
Amateur, on the Old Course, on his way to the grand slam, since you were
asking, Scottie....) For my own particular sins, I've periodically
contributed to BOTH apparently nefarious trends. I think I've had a few
thoughts on Robert Zimmerman, as well. And when I was a mere fry, I recall
being sucked into the Nietzschean eternal recurrence of a discussion of
spelling and grammar--especially capitalization. I'll never do THAT again.
For reasons that have almost everything to do with purely personal tastes, I
try to ignore (and never pretend to know anything about) conversations
concerning religion (East or West), contemporary popular music (sic), any
abnormal bowel movements recently reported from Cornish, and a whole range
of other topics that I'm NOT trying to dismiss.
I'm just not interested.
But worshipping the full moon as it rose above the famous ballustrade at
Yankee Stadium, with Will and Tim, was....
Oops, I almost broke my own rule about avoiding all religious conversations.
Anyways, sincere thanks to Bruce for bringing up the Buddy reference, and
indirectly invoking one of the most beautiful metaphors from TCitR--a sacred
baseball glove with green writing (which was, If I remember correctly, the
reason for me first mentioning baseball in the bananafishbowl.... OSR***)
Cheers,
Paul
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