![]() ![]() ![]() James’ Beyond a Boundary in a couple of parsecs) into two separate posts, the second one to follow in a few days.Īpparently this time my transdimensional Scrabble partner was Giraldus of Cracow, author of the Speculum Angelorum et Hominem, the same guy who communicated with Yeats through his wife Georgie’s automatic writing (now there was a woman who knew how to keep her husband interested, especially when he was fantasizing about Maude Gonne). Bartlett Giamatti, with special emphasis on his achingly jouissant essay, “The Green Fields of the Mind.” Ever solicitous of my readers’ tolerances, I have broken my speculations of Giamatti’s baseball ouvre (not to be confused with an “over” in Cricket – we’ll get to that when I review C.L.R. ![]() ![]() Or, as in the foregoing case, consider two collections of belletristic essays – Bart Giamatti’s Take Time for Paradise and A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. I will usually avoid the crowd pleasers like The Boys of Summer (though I might orfer a postcolonial deconstruction of Men at Work) and exhume, instead, for your discriminating pineal eye the less well known or hidden gems. In that very spirit of miasmatic agglomeration, I may as the spirits of my Ouija Scrabble board move me, pick a novel or short story, a history. Bartlett GiamattiĪs threatened aforetime and in those days before dissociation, when each was one and one was unwieldy, I am beginning a series of illuminations of some of the great baseball books. Thread The Baseball and Sports Writings of A. ![]()
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