Baseball

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:

> If one had the choice:  having a catch with Willie Mays, knowing you will 
> never know the full details of some obscure system called life;joining 
> them it would seem, or having the chance of having yourself injected with 
> the full brunt of their wisdom within you-the system and all its 
> vagaries, thus joining the likes of (excuse me here) Jim Morrison, Rilke 
> (a suicide?), Kurt Cobain, Sylvia Plath, in their mad rush to suicide, 
> well I'd have to say I'd rather have a catch with Willie.  Does this make 
> me as guilty as Heidegger?  What position would Martin or I play in this 
> game of theirs-catcher perhaps, wearing the tools of ignorance?  Well, 
> this is starting to sound like a Monty Python sketch...I guess what I'm 
> saying is sometimes ignorance is bliss.
> 
> And I agree with Bonnie-I have always found baseball to be the most 
> civilized of American sport compared to the inherent violence of the 
> others.
> 
> 
> 
Thanks Richard, but I don't think I ever said that.  I think I said 
something about its sedative nature with a view toward expressing my 
undying disinterest in the sport.

Bonnie