I am watching basketball on the TV screen, and trying
only to watch basketball, not the latest reports
on what might have happened to the Boeing 777
that vanished into thin air. The man next to me asks,
So you're starting to like basketball. Then he adds,
It's almost like ballet. You think?
Nope, I say. But I'd love to watch a real ballet
while I'm working out. Wouldn't you? He grunts.
That would be like watching the grass grow.
You mean like watching basketball? I ask.
I think how often I've heard men compare football or baseball
or boxing to ballet, as if that's a reason to appreciate it.
So why can't we just watch ballet?
peace and purpose and balance are deeply worthwhile
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Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing,
and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate that
suffering...
2 hours ago
1 comment:
I like to compare football and baseball and boxing to poetry.
That doesn't convince anybody very often either...
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