Unforced Errors Self-inflicted wounds are the worst kind when you know the hands of your attacker will fail yet again to handle the moment of truth, to record the last out, to stop that slow dribbler coming up the first-base line; A freight train on the express lane rumbling down the tracks. Your feet staked. …
I often reflected on a proverb. I cannot say when I first came upon it. Maybe I read it in a translated Japanese text, or was it Mandarin? There's about a thirty-percent chance that it had Cantonese origins. Though it's more likely that it was a meme of mysterious origins (scrawled with ball-point pen on …
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