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Not Quite Hockey Gods
While most Harvard students are savoring that last hour or two of peaceful slumber at this time of morning, a handful of dedicated individuals bundle up twice a week and head across the river to the Bright Hockey Center. The adventurers are not varsity hockey gods or Olympic skaters. These...
Before the first lessons of the morning begin, around 7:45 a.m., there are various levels of ability represented on the ice. A few skaters glide across the rink effortlessly--some of whom actually are hockey gods--while others inch along with their arms out at their sides, staying close...
Neither, for that matter, did Sisyphus. I am convinced that when I die, the gods will put me in a never-ending Harvard dorm room with an infinite number of posters, and I will spend eternity trying to keep them all up on the wall at the same time. Futility...
And he makes it too, because he carries with him a kind of human talisman, an ancient named Colonel Sun, who bears every possible intimation of immortality. It becomes increasingly clear that the colonel's memory, while selective, goes back centuries, that Sun has a handy way with magic and...