The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That

Teachers Believe They Have A Gift For Giving; It Drives Them With The Same Irrepressible Drive That Drives Others To Create A Work Of Art Or A Market Or A Building.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

The Gods Have Fled, I Know. My Sense Is The Gods Have Always Been Essentially Absent. I Do Not Believe Human Beings Have Played Games Or Sports From The Beginning Merely To Summon Or To Please Or To Appease The Gods. If Anthropologists And Historians Believe That, It Is Because They Believe Whatever They Have Been Able To Recover About What Humankind Told The Gods Humankind Was Doing. I Believe We Have Played Games, And Watched Games, To Imitate The Gods, To Become Godlike In Our Worship Of Eachother And, Through Those Moments Of Transmutation, To Know For An Instant What The Gods Know.

It Breaks Your Heart. It Is Designed To Break Your Heart. The Game Begins In Spring, When Everything Else Begins Again, And It Blossoms In The Summer, Filling The Afternoons And Evenings, And Then As Soon As The Chill Rains Come, It Stops And Leaves You To Face The Fall Alone.

[baseball] Breaks Your Heart. It Is Designed To Break Your Heart.