re. Ballspiel in der Unterwelt

[cfalbert]

They become prone to 'acedia'?

love,
cfa


At 01:53 PM 5/14/04, you wrote:
>Baseball was invented so that, every spring, another
>dozen or so writers would have a subject around which
>to indulge mawkish reminiscence about their long-gone
>childhoods--the smell of neatsfoot oil on leather,
>pine tar on ash--and the ignorant, racist
>crackers--drooling Redman and fondling their
>nuts--recalled as youthful white demigods astride the
>summer earth, bats in hand, until age, as it must,
>claims their grace and they evanesce into the misty
>worlds of used car dealerships, beer distribution, and
>bowling alley management; torpor and vindictive
>pettiness; sloth, alcohol, and morbid self-pity.
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