baseball

[Murthy Yenamandra]

John Roca writes:
> page 508 it says: "In fact, no two people have been so
> il-equipped to approach a Holy Center since the days of Tchitcherine and
> Dzaqyp Qulan, hauling ass over the steppe, into the North, to find their
> Kirghiz Light.  That'ws about ten years' gap.  Giving this pastime about the
> same vulnerability to record-breakers as baseball, a sport also
> well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister."

"well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister" - these could be
the white lines of the baseball diamond - these are designed to keep the
batters going around and around the diamond, but never get to the "Holy
Center" - where the spider - that is, the pitcher lurks, with the goal
of eluding and eliminating the poor batters who are stuck outside the
diamond and can never get to him. If I were a batter, I'd be paranoid
too :-).

Well, that is my take for now.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CSci, Univ of Minnesota. Email: yenamand at cs.umn.edu