Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.
From David Shields
I like art with a visible string to the world.
From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.
Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.
I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
I'm a sucker for sports movies.
Flipping through the channels late at night, I'll come across 'The Longest Yard' and not be able to get up off the couch until Burt Reynolds has scored the winning touchdown.
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
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