Tennis

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Being by nature and physical displacement a cricketer, and therefore and anti-tennis player it has taken the JC some years to come to terms with the fact that it can tell us something meaningful about the world.

Tennis employs an alien numeric system. It is like a gruesome experiment on conventional geometry. This alone give us a perspective on another possibility; a different kind of mathematics; a whole different space-time in which numbers do not increase in a linear fashion, but in odd denominations and then reverse over them selves in some kind of warped spacetime: one can have an advantage, then lose it, then give one up and gain it again. There is no sequential accumulation of points; one might score seven points in every game in a set, but at the end of the set have none at all.

And strangely this peculiar geometry is somehow transmuted into physical space comma four a tennis court is a place where euclid has apparently no influence of course stop there are warps and eddies and portals in the space time continue that hover and wink in and out of existence on a tennis court full stop this we think explains the curious behavior of balls and the architecture of amateur players. There is a cloak really known rainbow of shit around every player it grows strength as she