A beautiful book indeed, even in English... Christopher was picking up
on the antithesis thesis, and among other things suggested that
meaning is in the unfolding, rather in predetermined
putting-into-words, and art is one and sport another. You can argue
for years about this, but surely sport is an ultimate improvisation
within rules, existing in its doing and its unpredictability - unless
there's game fixing of course. There's a lot of money and other
difficult things, nationalism for instance, generated around sport;
yet I'd say there is that "deterritorialisation" in sport, those
moments when it lifts beyond its contexts into pure act, and becomes a
joyous thing. You can see that in great tennis matches where a
brilliant player catches the crowd out of its narrower loyalties.
And art too has its corruptions. Is it fair to speak of the best of
art and the worst of sport?
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Anny Ballardini
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> Roberto Galasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, a beautiful book. But I think
> that Christopher meant something different.
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