The real teachers and coaches may offer a charismatic model—they probably
have to—but then they insist that all the magic they have to offer is a
commitment to repetition and perseverance. The great oracles may enthrall,
but the really great teachers demystify. They make particle physics into a
series of diagrams that anyone can follow, football into a series of steps
that anyone can master, and art into a series of slides that anyone can
see. A guru gives us himself and then his system; a teacher gives us his
subject, and then ourselves.
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David Remnick, The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker
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3 comments:
Those semi-colons serve a useful narrative purpose. Each one denotes a small throb, a tempting swoon, a racking sigh, an inward groan, a gasp aching to turn into a full-fledged pang; in short, together they create a whole palette of emotions.
Reminded of the phrase "painting wet".
Those cannot have been summers ill-spent.
("Uplie", I am commanded now by the ever-sensitive WV bot. Could that be the advice once given Emily, in her disheveled slugabed moments?)
Oh well, a few more drips from the same tap:
Emily Jane Brontë: "The night is darkening round me"
Emily Jane Brontë: Remembrance
Ah yes. I loved all the Brontes and used to read their biographies. In one they would compose stories by walking around and around the dinner table. In another Emily had out of the body experiences in which she flew over the moors like an owl in the night.
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