baseball

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Just thought of something else.

John Roca writes:
> >Sorry...the actual reference reads differently than my fevered late-nite
> memory.  At 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."

This could also refer to the scarcity of non-white pitchers in baseball
- more so when GR was written than now - in general, the percentage of
non-white pitchers is/was quite lower than the percentage of non-white
baseball players in general. So it could be referring to the sinister
white conspiracy that keeps others "il-equipped to approach a Holy
Center".

I don't know how plausible this is, though - just thought I'd get it out
of my system.

Murthy

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