Subject: Re: it ain't the Yankees that need help
Omlor@aol.com
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 16:00:24 GMT
And while we're at it...
That other J.D. (the French-philosopher one) was, as a young boy in Algiers,
a determined, if undersized, footballer. (And some would say he's been
making up for his problems on the pitch ever since.)
>From one for whom, here, now, golf is still all tied up in the imagination,
who goes to sleep at night reviewing the day's round shot by shot, and who
carries a 9 handicap into his biweekly money games,
--John
PS: Of course, all this fascination with the ritual and routine of sport is
also one of the ways we maintain the illusion that we have some sort of
control over the passing of time. No matter what else happens, next January,
right here in my home town, there *will* be a Super Bowl, marked as always
with the Roman Numerals of History. Like those hunting rituals in Faulkner's
"The Bear" that keep that dream of the line of generational experience alive,
we come back for yet another try next season, next week, next match, next
game. And we watch Tiger in amazement and wonder and in the context of all
those that have walked the same ground before him.
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"I can saw a woman in two,
but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through."
Warren Zevon
-- For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer
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