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The Pact, Sampson Davis Rameck Hunt & George Jenkins
2007-04-02 14:29:00 Book Review by Ziggy Grade 8, English Bigelow Middle School Newton, MA The name of my book is The Pact. It is by Drs. Sampson Davi s Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins. The genre of this book is non-fiction/auto biography. It is non-fiction because the three doctors tell the story about making their own pathways out of the ghetto. It ... More About: Avis
Miracle?s Boys, Jacquelyn Woodson
2007-04-02 14:19:00 Book Review by Tim P Grade 8, English Bigelow Middle School Newton, MA The book Mira cle ?s Boy?s by Jacquelyn Wood son is about three brothers growing up in New York City, and their struggles with losing their parents. In the book, the three brothers all have different dreams. The oldest brother Tyree wants to go to college but has to work ... More About: Woods , Boys
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory MaGuire
2007-04-02 14:08:00 Book Review by Annie Grade 8, English Bigelow Middle School Newton, MA Wicked is a parallel novel based upon the writings of L. Frank Baum. It is a new look at the land and characters of Oz from L Frank Baum?s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The way MaGuire presents the original ideas, from The Wizard of Oz, is ... More About: Life , Time , West , Times
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
2007-04-02 13:59:00 Book Review by Andy Grade 8, English Bigelow Middle School Newton, MA The book I have read is called Monster by Walter dean Myer s . It starts out with a boy by the name of Steve Harmon on in prison for felony murder and as the book progresses we begin to find the circumstances about the crime. The book does not ... More About: Dean , Alter
Bernard Moitessier?s, The Long Way: Four Decades Later
2007-03-10 22:23:01 Is The Long Way a good book? No, not really. Not today. What in the early 70's was a psalm of the heart is now reads as a post-millenial wank. Much like like Sidhartha, or Zen in the Art of Archery; Bernard Moitessier's The Long Way suited its time during its time only. Which isn't to say it will not inspire; it will inspire some. Nor is it to say it's not poetic. It IS poetic (more than all). But it is drudgery. Sailing around the world all on one's own is boring no matter how couched it is in the mystical and magic. Reading about it ... well. More About: Ades , Four , Late
Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Francis Chichester
2007-02-25 10:12:02 All the things that make single handed voyage more difficult than need be are properly present in this narrative; an unwieldy and unbalanced boat, a vessel much too large for a single-hander to sail comfortably, rotting stores, uncertain hydration, broken parts, lumpy seas, depression, injuries and an entirely unrealistic objective.A classic document of self-punishing endurance. More About: World , Fran , Chest , The World , Circle
Lilith?s Dream, Strieber?s Hunger Uncovered
2007-02-21 22:09:01 Alternative Realities and an Imagination Fully Realized Whitley Strieber’s third, rambunctious novel in the vampire series he began with The Hunger in 1980, and continued in Last Vampire introduces a new female bloodsucker to replace the vanquished Miriam Blaylock. She’s Lilith ?the biblical Lilith, first wife of Adam?and the mother of all vampires, or Keepers, who, according to Strieber’s elaborate vampire mythology, created humanity. Bloody nonsense? No more so than than Dan Brown’s antichrist as portrayed in the soon to be released adaptation of Angels and Demons. Grotesque? Bits and pieces. An imaginative literary romp? Chimera thinks so, read on. Book Review by Hertzan Chimera You could never play this movie the way the book is written - the viewing public has seen too much of this sort of cheap-shot denouement in the likes of Men in Black and Bobby Ewing?s series-long shower. You?d have to start the movie WITH the denouement. To fully sate this in a m... More About: Cover , Dream , Over
After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
2007-02-20 04:06:01 “Unexpectedly powerful, a collection of stories, slender and small as a hand, about the emotional after-shocks of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe … Even if After the Quake has nothing to say about Murakami , which it certainly does, I’d gladly settle for what it says about us.” Jeff Giles, The New York Times Book Review Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways. She never said a word. Sunk deep in the cushions of the sofa, her mouth clamped shut, she wouldn’t answer when Komura spoke to her. She wouldn’t shake her head or nod. Komura could not be sure the sound of his voice was even getting through to her. Book Review by Hertzan Chimera It?s never easy reviewing the work of Haruki Murakami , without merely figurizing your delight in rolling fields of poignant adulation and Nobel-Prize-worthy rhetoric ? his work garners such resp... More About: Kami
The Bug Boy, Post War Psyche Drawn Large
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Hideshi Hino Draw s on the Horrors of a Past War Sanpei is bullied at school and mistreated at home. His only real friends are his pets. But when he gets stung by a strange insect, Sanpei’s life changes forever. Transformed into a huge poisonous bug, he escapes to discover the world outside. There he finds only more hatred, and eventually he returns to exact a terrifying revenge. Book Review by Mike Philbin In The Bug Boy, loner Sanpei Hiromoto is hated by everyone. His problem is he is distracted by his bugs. He loves bugs of all shapes and sizes. Snakes too. Sanpei can?t get enough of those slimy, slithery creatures. His grades at school are consistently Fs. He is feared by all the girls in the school. He is hated by the boys. Every night Hideshi Hino’s Bug Boy is beaten up on his way back from school. His family bully him because of his grades, his brother and sister are straight A students ? like every good Japanese child. Sanpei is alone at school and alone at home... More About: Post , Psych , Psyche
Hideshi Hino: Horror, Pathos and the Master of Manga
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Manga Turns to Terror Manga, as we in the west have come to know it, manifests itself in cute-girl images and effeminate-pretty-boys with big eyes and androgynous bodies. Depth of emotion is removed by a dearth of reality. In creating the singular style, the artists have removed much of what connects a reader or viewer from the characters and, for lack of better word, neuters the text. But … but there is, and has been, an underground of exactly the opposite, a movement where the comic book style is used to evoke strong and sometimes violent emotions. Hideshi Hino is one such artist. His graphic novels are profane and bereft of the comforting distance readers of Spirited Away, or (oh lord) Sailor Moon will recognize. Like Philip K Dick, there is deeply damaged material being mined for Hideshi Hino’s works. What results is not main-stream culture. It does not entertain. Pyschotherapy perpaps? Was The Cosmic Puppets about Philip K Dick as a boy? Is The Bug Boy about Hi... More About: Horror , Manga , Master , The Master , Mast
The Red Snake, Hideshi Hino
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Within this Graphic Novel by Hideshi Hino, Something evil lurks. It is in rooms that nobody enters, it is in the dark forest all around, and it is in the minds of the people that live there. Only when a red snake appears does the evil manifest itself, unleashing horrific events that end in a bloody orgy of murder and mayhem. Book Review by Mike Philbin This is touted as being about a haunted house ? in reality it?s more about a haunted family. One can only wonder what this family of freaks were like before they moved into this haunted house, or maybe they and the house have been inextricably interlinked, psyche and flesh interwoven on the Hellplane so that neither is distinguishable from the other. Nor should one forget the woods. The haunted woods that always lead you back to the house. Look, it?s simple, there?s no escape. And that?s how this book treats the reader, there?s no escape from the obscene blood hunger of this crazy damned book. Those with a weak stomach and reliant u... More About: Snake
Oninbo and the Bugs From Hell
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Hideshi Hino’s Morality Tale Oninbo may be the cutest demon around, but his table manners can be downright revolting! His favorite snacks are grotesque Bugs from Hell ; creatures that live in the hearts of people, where they grow fat and hideous until they are ready to devour the souls that nourish them. Oninbo can smell a bug a mile away, and will risk anything to get his hands on a ripe, juicy specimen. He?s not the only one with a bug appetite, however. Mamushinbo, his demon rival, is also after the Bugs from Hell. (Bizarre … there was a time I thought Kafka and his Metamorphosis was over the top … ed.) Book Review by Mike Philbin I love these cute little books from Japan. I love the way you read them from the back. I love the way DHP has lovingly amended the text into English. And I love Hino?s wry outlook on life. I particularly love the way Oninbo, the star of Oninbo and the Bugs From Hell, uses his retractable eyeball to first capture and suck into his brain...
Oninbo and the Bugs From Hell Two
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Oninbo is back, with rivals Mamushinbo, girl-demon Himenbo and Sasorinbo all hungry for bugs! Don?t be fooled by appearances. Oninbo may be the cutest demon around, but his table manners can be downright revolting. That?s because his favorite snacks are grotesque Bugs from Hell that live in the hearts of people. Oninbo can smell a bug a mile away, and will risk anything to get his hands on a ripe, juicy specimen. But he?s not the only one with a bug appetite. Mamushinbo, Himenbo and the brat-demon Sasorinbo are also after the Bugs from Hell. Book Review by Mike Philbin In Oninbo and the Bugs From Hell Two, Oninbo is back; cuter and more disgusting than ever. This time our Bug eating Demon is joined by two other equally cute and equally evil side-kicks; the street-wise Mamushinbo and the lace and polka-dot attired Himenbo. This evil trio have nothing in common except for their insatiable hunger for Hell Bugs. Lord only knows where these little demons put it all. Maybe they?re like ...
Living Corpse, Hideshi Hino?s Undead
2007-02-16 16:04:01 Hino Hideshi’s, Living Corpse give us Shinkai Yosuke who is haunted by a past he cannot recall, and a rapidly decomposing body. Washed up on the shores of Japan, he is isolated by doctors eager to find out why he has been brought back to life only to suffer again a slow and gruesome death. Shinkai, who knows he has little time left, is desperate to find out who he really was, and why he has become a Living Corpse. Book Review by Mike Philbin In Living Corpse, Shinkai Yosuke doesn?t know where he came from. He wanders around in a place he doesn?t know where the people run away from him in fear for their lives. He has no idea why he is here or even who he is. Then he sees his face in a shop window. What a disgusting horrible creature. A rotting corpse that thinks and breathes and speaks. Surely this can?t be true? Who is Shinkai Yosuke and why is he in this seaside town? The doctors who take him into their care have no idea either but subject Yosuke to further excruciating pain... More About: Dead , Ving
Black Cat, Hideshi Hino, Humanity & Horror in a Feline
2007-02-16 16:04:01 This tongue-in-cheek semi-autobiography follows the the absurdly gruesome adventures of a lonely boy and his singularly crazed family. His escape from the madness that surrounds him is his collection of pickled animal and human body parts, to which he adds as one family member after another meet with a grotesque and sometimes terrifyingly funny death. Book Review by Mike Philbin Of the six Hino Horror titles I have read to date, Black Cat is my very favourite. It?s unsurprisingly about a Black Cat who lives in a drainpipe on a rubbish tip with his three kitten brothers. Their mother hasn?t returned and is unlikely to. So, one day our little black hero goes off in search of a decent meal or a friendly human that will give him a home. He?s a lovely Black Cat, too ? smooth black fur and a gorgeous outlook on life. It?s such a shame that black cats are considered unlucky creatures in Japan. Hideshi Hino’s Black Cat, A Synopsis The book is laid out in three episodes that illustrat... More About: Human , Mani
Philip K Dick, A Critical Appreciation, Part Two
2007-02-13 04:02:02 What Hath Man Wrought Sci-fi conventions are merely tools Dick uses to externalise the trauma of his rancid thoughts to his readers; to allow them to pseudo-understand. Sci-fi merely lends the canvas to Dick’s artistic spattering. Mike Phil bin Mike Philbin, publisher of Chimericanabooks, as well as writer and artist, continues his essay on the definitive author, Philip K Dick. Not always comforting, not always easy to read, but provocative none-the-less, the books point us towards our own humanity in ways we may not always wish were the case. In A Crit ical Apprectiation, Part Two the motivations and man behind the books are further parsed. Solar Lottery, Philip K. Dick The year is 2203 and the Earth is governed by a bizarre system of leadership whereby public officeholders and the targets of political assassinations alike are chosen by a random twitch of The Bottle. In this maniacal world, Ted Benteley becomes the saviour in a mad struggle for supremacy on the psychic plane.... More About: Appreciation
Philip K Dick, A Critical Appreciation, Part One
2007-02-12 22:01:01 Prescient, Discomforting - Phil bin Takes on the Master Philip K Dick deserves more than he gets. Are his books great literature? Some folks say so. Some say not. Are they prescient? Absolutely. Disturbing? Often. Discomforting. Fuck yeah … Kinda’ like The Velvet Underground or maybe The Stooges … not great music really, but really really great nonetheless … way ahead of its time, thematically grounded in the biggest issues and a complete outlier way beyond the edge of what was. It was / is speculative fiction that sold squat in its day, but influenced everything that has come since. Mike Philbin, a writer if speculative fiction himself, has reviewed a number of Philip K Dick’s novels for a number of venues and has been kind enough to let The Open Crit ic re-post the reviews here, in one place. In Part One of his essay, Philbin reviews three diverse works: The Crack in Space / Cantata-140, The Game Players of Titan, Time Out of Joint; and in Part Two,... More About: Appreciation
A Scanner Darkly, Look Away
2007-02-12 03:59:01 Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D–which Arctor takes in massive doses–gradually splits the user’s brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn’t realize he is narcing on himself. Book Review by Mike Philbin A Scan ner Dark ly is one of Philip K. Dick’s later novels and, as such it hit me right between the eyes like a punch from a featherweight. It didn’t knock me unconscious but my eyes started to water and my legs turned to jelly. I nearly puked at one point as the punches came in from all sides, but I didn’t go down. I knew all’s I had to do was stay on my feet. I knew that as long as I turned the pages and followed Robert Arctor to the end of the book as if he was my guide through ‘how to fuck your head with drugs’ then I... More About: A Scanner Darkly , Cann , Anne
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick
2007-02-11 15:58:02 Flow My Tear s, The Police man Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by Phil ip K. Dick in which Jason Taverner, who is a Six (a genetically improved superhuman) as well as a singer and television star, lives in a future American police state. It was awarded first prize in the John W. Campbell Awards for the best science fiction novel of the year in 1975. It was also nominated for a Nebula Award in 1974 and a Hugo Award in 1975. Reviewed by Mike Philbin On 4th June 1989, the Chinese government brutally quashed a march for reform, by upwards of 100,000 protestors, in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Students, workers and intellectuals alike were mown down in cold blood by the Chinese army, killing anywhere between 700 and 7,000 citizens depending on which news media you subscribed to. The day after the massacre, one lone protestor halted the procession of a line of tanks through Tiananmen Square. He became known as ‘Tank Man’. There have been many attempts to identify Tank Man but...
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
2007-02-10 15:57:03 A 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It tells of the moral crisis of Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who stalks androids in a fallout-clouded, partially deserted future San Francisco. Along with The Man in the High Castle, the novel is Dick?s most famous. It is one of the defining science fiction works exploring the ethical dimensions of the “android” concept, as a literary device understanding concepts of persecution based on narrow distinctions, such as ethnicity. Reviewed by Mike Philbin Surely you’ve heard this often before… or maybe you haven’t. It’s a question, a simple question. And here it is. Is Philip K. Dick the modern day equivalent of William Shakespeare? Now, I’ve gone totally PDK insane, yes? No. And I’ll show you why. Dick’s many books, the more I read them, have greater and greater resonance. Just like Shakespeare’s numerous volumes. I did hypothesise that maybe it was a symptom of me getting old.... More About: Dream , Electric , Sheep , Android , Shee
The Cosmic Puppets, Something Gruesome This Way Comes
2007-02-10 15:57:03 Yielding to a compulsion he can?t explain, Ted Barton makes a return visit to the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. On entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, he finds that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind?and never did. He also discovers that in this Millgate, Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old. Even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape. Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities and finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley. Review by Mike Philbin What are Ted and Peggy Barton doing in Millgate, VA? Does the place even exist? Well, it exists in some half-forgotten form; it certainly doesn’t exist in the form that Ted Barton remembers. On his arrival in Millgate, he spends the first few hours looking for shops that no longer exist on streets that no longer exist, parks that... More About: Pets , Methi , This , Come , Something
Hesse?s Siddhartha Reviewed, What Relevance Remains
2007-02-06 21:53:01 Of a generation to young to be automatic acolytes; or sympathetic towards the quirky spiritualism of the aching aging boomers; and not well enough educated to know better, it would appear that the post millenial reader no longer has much interest in Herman Hesse and his novellette, Siddhartha. Is this properly so … ? Have we, in an age where much calls out for action, moved past the idea that sitting by the side of the river and just “being” is a state worth achieving? Can we afford such inaction? And whether we recognize it or not, do we then discount Hesse’s treatise on how to achieve inner peace? (Rhetorical q’s all, but good starting points none-the-less. This is The Open Critic afterall and Peter and Trevor assure me there will be no marks taken away for sophmoric panderings, so hah … !) [ post comment ] Siddhartha, What Is There is great danger in reviewing a book with the cultural and literary gravitas accorded to a book such as Herman H... More About: Review , Main , Hat , Hart
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L?Engle
2007-02-02 21:49:01 “There is such a thing as a tesseract … “ These eponymous words have lured children into L’Engles fantasy constructs since first written in 1963. A Wrinkle in Time is a fantasy of the sort kids aren’t exposed to in these post-millenial years. It is naive; it is political; and it’s heart rending and hopeful in ways that 13 year olds need literature to be heartrending and hopeful. It broke barriers and caused controversy. Unlike any Harry Potter or The Golden Compass, it is somehow uneven and incomplete. The themes smack you in the face. And it shouldn’t work. Not by today’s standards anyway. Yet it does work. The magic is in its naivety and uneveness and its portrayals of strong children and fantastical witch cum angels. A missing father, a brilliant brother, and a pulsing all powerful Orwellian brain combine to create worlds that somehow change kid’s perceptions of themselves and their potential. [ post comment ] A Wrink... More About: Made , Madeleine , Adele
Paco Torreblanca, The Book
2007-02-01 09:47:01 Paco Torreblanca Reviewed Book Review by Peter Williams After books such as White Slave and Kitchen Confential, and after watching Gordon Ramsay’s gut churning Hell’s Kitchen, it’s with a great dollop of relief to pick up a book like this. There are no 4 letter epiteths. There is no rock star chef ranting and raving at cowering pastry chefs and no bodies ala The Bobby Gold Stories, in the washroom stalls. Rather, Paco Torreblanca has chosen the most eloquent form of autobiography possible for a chef – a cookbook. Granted, it sells for well over $200 in most places, but in presentation, style and content in typifies the man completely. When he says, as he does, in the introduction; I love the universe of flavours because of its richness and because of the surprising and infinite array of flavorful suggestions that nautre offers us, as well as the changes that man has made to them. However I firmly believe that the recipoe creation process must be based on ... More About: E Book
White Slave, Marco Pierre White
2007-01-27 03:42:01 The best way to read a book is to do so with no foreknowledge at all of its contents. Ergo, the best way to read an autobiography is with no clue of the author. Marc o Pier re White may be a legend in culinary circles; he may in fact be widely known throughout Europe and the American capitals; hell, everybody in the world may know about him with the exception of this reviewer; and if so, the contents of White Slave will surprise no-one what-so-ever. What’s more likely, however, is that large numbers of people will stumble on this book and be attracted by its noir-ish good looks and promise of a bad boy betwixt the covers. What they’ll discover is an asshole, a working class hero and the rudest chef in London. White is the precurser of Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Confidential’s, Anthony Bourdain. White Slave, Bad Temper In an episode recounted early in the book White throws ripe cheese against the kitchen walls in a fit of pique, where they re... More About: Arco
Adventure Literature: What Compels Us? What Next?
2007-01-26 15:41:01 Adventure Literature : What It Is Non-fiction literary accounts of mankind’s encounters with his/her environment. If we can take the National Geographic list as instructive, the genre is inclusive of mountaineering books, polar accounts, sailing and survival epics, nature and travel writing, and general exploration. The genre spans the centuries, the earliest books being primary accounts of opening the America’s. The Spaniard Nobleman, Cabeza De Vaca’s, Naufragios being an 16th century example. Sebastian Junger’s, The Perfect Storm, and the popularized account of a fishing crews’ encounter with a 100 foot waves, a more recent example. Books Quoted in This Review Slowly Down the Ganges, Eric Newby The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry Garrard Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer Touching the Void, Joe Simpson Up until the turn of the century most books continued to be fir... More About: Venture , Adventure , Comp
Anthony Bourdain; The Bobby Gold Stories
2007-01-26 15:41:01 Bukowski Lite “Bukoswki Lite,” the description it would make Bobby Gold a little nervous. Inspite of his job as nightclub bouncer cum underworld enforcer, Anthony Bourdain’s protagonist is a guy with regrets and flagging esteem. There is no swagger and no fuck you, not in the way Bukowski’s characters carried on anway, and certainly not like Henry Miller’s lowlife. The comparison doesn’t stop there. Fair or not, Bourdain is no stylist. Not like Bukowski was. There is no lyricism; no poetic fade-outs. Nor like Miller, with his run on stream of conscious meanderings. That said, the quality of prose neither augments or gets in the way. What there are instead are a collection of connected vignettes. Characters are competently sketched out, but only kind-of. Place is evoked, though only sort-of. There is no real definitive sense of where one is, or when. Mid 80′? Late 20’s. Early millenium. What the book needs is a movie to give it ... More About: Stories , Tories , Stor
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
2007-01-26 15:41:01 Alas poor Pullman; when the church responds to the theatrical release of The Gold en Comp ass, he’s bound to find himself at the whirling centre of a debate, only to be equalled by that which will envelope Dan Brown’s, Angels and Demons. So far the book, the first in the trilogy, His Dark Materials , has escaped notice of the more easily offended christian community, but the series growing popularity seems destined to put it in the sightlines of not only an offended Catholic Church, but the evangelical flanks as well. Summation of The Golden Compass In The Golden Compass, the heroine, Lyra Belacqua, a young girl brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, and her dĉmon Pantalaimon ? an animal-shaped manifestation of her soul ? learn of the existence of Dust The strange elementary particle is believed by the Church to be evidence for Original Sin. Dust is less attracted to the innocence of children, and this gives rise to grisly experiments being carried ...
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
2007-01-26 15:41:01 Let’s say, just for the hell of it, you were a good student and actually listened to your creative writing instructor. Instead of your usual tripe, you ‘up’ the narrative ante in your latest work of genius, and hide a nuclear bomb in downtown Los Angel es, or maybe the vatican city. And, perhaps, instead of your tortured Raskolnikov, you give your audience a good guy to cheer for. And then, maybe you go the whole way and arbitrarily give the good guy 24 hours to get the bad guys before the bomb goes boom. Perhaps throw in some religious zealots, incomprehensible clues, and an attractive (smart) woman. Then you send it off to Fox, or maybe Doubleday. It hurts to do, but the bank is calling and your wife is pissed off … so you do. Next, the phone rings, you sign on the dotted line, and 1 year later you’ve done it … you’ve cracked the formula … yahoo … a best-seller, rave reviews, and you’re getting laid regularly … a... More About: Angels , Brown , Demo , Demon
Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
More articles from this author:2007-01-26 15:41:01 Most serious practicioners of a sport will, at one time or another, find themselves performing unconsciously. Perhaps their minds will wander off towards next weekend’s chores, and then off to Uncle Eric’s hip replacement, and Lucy’s odd obsession with death metal. Then, unexpectedly, they may realize that perhaps they should be concentrating instead on the task at hand, after which they immediately realize that the task at hand is well taken care of inspite of their careless lack of regard for technique, concentration or will. A skier, for instance, may realize that his body is functioning perfectly, and has infact somehow combined with equipment and environment in such a way that all three seem improbably united into one and the same. A mountain biker with a technical bent may all of a sudden realize she has thoughtlessly cleared an obstacle previously never cleared. A squash player may come to the sudden realization that every shot he hits goes where its int... More About: Chery , Cher , Archery , The A , The Art 1, 2, 3, 4 |
