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With Greg Olson, Harvard's finest penalty-killer, out of action with a thigh injury, and Mike Watson and Scott Powers also on the injured list, the Crimson was no match for the crack (29 per cent) B.C. power play. Not five minutes of it, anyway...
When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round...
PLAY, AMERICAN STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of programmed logic and binary code. No more categorical imperatives, just capricious decisiveness and contingency plans...
...sides staring at one another across the table with reptile's eyes (their bladders nagging, their minds beginning to buzz and fray, the brain cells winking out like campfires). No Exit, a purgatory of silence and cultural incomprehension and stolid grievance, waiting for the other side to crack and start giving away points...
Consider the story of two men quarreling in a library. One wants the window open and the other wants it closed. They bicker back and forth about how much to leave it open: a crack, halfway, three quarters of the way. No solution satisfies them both...