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Last Saturday, before a rowdy crowd at Lavietes Pavilion, sophomore Pat Harvey and the Crimson gave local basketball fans another memorable ending reminiscent of Bird and the Celtics of yesteryear...
Like Boston in the 1987 Eastern Finals, the Crimson was down by one with little time on the clock and with its opponents in possession of the ball. Like Detroit's Isaiah Thomas, Dartmouth's point guard Boyd handled the inbounds pass. And like Larry Bird, Pat Harvey came up with a steal for the ages...
Similar to the significance of Bird steal to the Celtics, "Pat's Pick" came at an important time for the Crimson...
...story lines to Saturday's game, Harvey's steal of Boyd's inbounds pass will be remembered as the defining moment in a game filled with tumultuous twists and turns for both teams. It may not have been the most dramatic or significant moment in Harvard basketball history, but "Pat's Pick" certainly ranks among the best endings in recent memory...
Houellebecq further evades adequate characterizations of the two men by assigning them pat philosophical summaries of everything from Kant to Huxley in lieu of giving them actual thoughts. It is not rare that one encounters such grand generalities as, "He was surprised at how miserable he felt. Far removed from Christian notions of grace and redemption, unfamiliar with the concepts of freedom and compassion, Michel's worldview had grown pitiless and mechanical." Such a statement flounders in the context of a work of fiction, and unfortunately is not redeemed by any breathtaking originality...