Friday 10 August 2012

10.8.2012 • The Game

The Game

There is a game, no, more a sport, where the throwing of balls is of paramount importance. Yet it has nothing to do with all the sports and games that are commonly known, such as football, soccer, basketball and so forth; this game is unique. And rare, for very few know the rules. But it is more of a game, as I said, than a sport, and so competition runs like iron in the veins, thin yet vital, metallic, certain. In this game there are two teams, or in fact more like three, I don't quite remember the exact number, but the world never goes by numbers, the numbers go by the world. A player of the first team throws the ball, in a chaotic fashion, or not, but at any rate so that its course is not straight. Then another, of the second team, throws the other ball, always on the ground, so that it overcomes the first only by a little, passing above it, or slightly below as it were, and coming to a stop by it on the grass, for this game is always played on the grass, and if no grass is there then hardly is the game ever held, should the grass fail say, fail to appear, but everyone goes away or starts playing another game, a more sportslike game perhaps, which requires less of its players and of its grass. Then a third player, possibly from the third team if there is one, throws his own ball which must rest in between the other two balls, and if he succeeds he gets to start the next round. This process continues until everyone has failed or everyone has succeeded, or no-one has done either, which is just as well since failure or success are very vaguely defined in this game, so that competition and a noble spirit are paramount in being motivated to play it. Let alone learn it, for it is not a game apprehensible by logic or by experience, but only by self-transcendence, in that way it is not quite dissimilar to God. Then after everything is completely in place, or out of place, or at any rate when everyone has had enough, or rather more often more than enough, when everyone has as they say quite had it, then does the game begin.

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