Fwd: Re: The Olympics

[Andrew Dinn]

charles barone writes:

> Susan F. wrote in response to DNF (below): Have you never done 
> something that has enveloped your total being, physical, emotional and 
> intellectual where that is all that you care about at the time? Or is 
> it that you've just never "won", not according to everyone else but 
> according to you. If this message still leaves you "clueless", maybe a 
> good "BOINKING" session is in order. 

Yes, indeed `at the time'. But the problem with pro or Olympic sport,
its coverage and even the way amateurs are encouraged to emulate its
petty dramas is that the enveloping is not just `at the time' but
becomes `all the time' to the exclusion of any other possibilities. I
worry about the fact that I read every spare moment of the day (when I
am not writing on the net, that is) but at least with reading you can
exercise your mind in an infinite variety of ways. Many sports and
sportspeople seem to me to have become unhealthily tuned in to a
single frequency, and that includes a lot of the amateurs. Doubtless,
just as unhealthy as those who learn, digest, cogitate and master but
never turn that experience into action. `In the parliament of life the
time comes for a division' but unfortunately I missed the vote cos I
was perfecting my backswing.

And I believe that's BONK, by the way.


Andrew Dinn
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To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
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