I don't care, really.leadville wrote:you'll just be dead slow
I just enjoy rowing.
But I am not enjoying this much anymore.
Perhaps this poem will explain.
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We All Know It
That silence is best ; that action and re-
Action are equal: that control, discipline, and
Liberation are bywords when spoken by an appraiser, that the
Accidental sometimes achieves perfection, loath though we may be to admit it:
And that the realm of art is the realm in
Which to look for "fishbones in the throat of the gang." Pin-
Pricks and the unstereotyped embarrassment being the contin-
Ual diet of artists. And in spite of it all, poets ask us just what it
Is in them that we cannot subscribe to:
People overbear till told to stop: no matter through
What sobering process they have gone, some inquire if emotion, true
And simulated are not the same thing: promoters request us to take an oath
That appearances are not cosmic: mis-
Fits in the world of achievement want to know what bus-
Iness people have to reserve judgment about undertakings. It is
A strange idea that one must say what one thinks in order to be understood.
--Marianne Moore
So it goes.
It is fun to talk about things that are primarily physical, emotional, and imaginative--like art, and all sports are arts.
But this talk is not generally appreciated.
I enjoy it.
But silence is indeed probably best, given the audience here.
This forum is all about quantitative, verifiable action and social performance.
I don't think these things have much at all to do with art, and therefore with what is most interesting and important about sport.
As Marianne Moore likes to say about poetry: "Ecstasy affords the occasion; expediency determines the form."
"It is one of the paradoxes of art that a work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself."
"Discoveries in art, certainly, are personal before they are general."
Sorry, Joe, but I think your book on sculling (_The Art of Sculling_) is mistitled.
_The Science/Mechanics/Rigamarole of Rowing_ would be more appropriate.
IMHO, equating art with its mechanics/rigamarole is a _huge_ mistake.
I don't have much interest at all in the science/mechanics/rigamarole of rowing, although I am willing to learn about some of it in order to pursue what _does_ interest me.
The things I am interested in, I guess, can't be said here.
ranger
