It's a beautiful game
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Pt109; It is indeed a Beautiful game when 3 Cushion is played at the highest level!
And when the interested spectator is developed and devoted to this GREAT game to appreciate many of the little nuances that occur in 40 or 50 point game it really becomes even more GREAT!
The understanding of a HIGH level game of 3 Cushion is just like being able to understand and appreciate impressionist paintings or the natural hand-eye coordination of a natural Golfer!
Albert Einstein was once quoting of saying to Willie Hoppe. "Sir, you are the ultimate test in what a Man can do with a sphere!"
Well a random wild-goose chase to get to the bottom of that quote led me to this, and I'm glad it did!
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/sports-games/learning-master
The final two paragraphs are amazing.
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Norman Maclean
From “‘Billiards Is a Good Game’: Gamesmanship and America’s First Nobel Prize Scientist.” Maclean’s father taught his two sons the Bible and how to fish, a pedagogy alluded to in the opening sentence of the titular novella of his only completed book, A River Runs Through It—“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.” Having devoted most of his life to teaching Romanticism and Shakespeare, Maclean died at the age of eighty-seven in 1990.
nice one, sir