'Ars poetica.'
Squash is such a special sport that each mention of it should be preceded by an impromptu mythological history of it. For instance:
Squash is an artform handed down from the alleged masters of the 2nd Century jiu jitsu. It was preserved in spiritual form by football manager Helenio Herrera, due to the influence of the Indian brahmin. It formed a precursor to the Ten Commandments and Jesus. As a result, it is a complex sport which our secular era has abandoned for tennis.
This blog is dedicated to the playing of squash. However, you might argue, why bother when squash is an art and not something to be played? That is true, hence this blog shall be brief. Anyway,
Though wise men concert
To prove me unwise,
None may controvert
What I recognise.
If perchance I err
Who shall dare to be
An interpreter
Of myself to me.
Famous pundits fuss,
Fiery poets fume,
Yet for each of us
All of them presume.
If I act the fool
It were worse to go
Afterwards to school
To find what I know.
By experience
The pupil is taught
Approximate sense
To do as he ought.*
* Oliver Davies, Plain Song. Don't know when it was published, so still speak with some authority.
