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.