<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538787" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Foul Shots: A Clinic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">for Paul Levitt Be perpendicular to the basket, <br>toes avid for the line. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Already this description <br>is perilously abstract: the ball <br>and basket are round, the nailhead <br>centered in the centerplank <br>of the foul-circle is round, <br>and though the rumpled body <br>isn't round, it isn't <br>perpendicular. You have to draw <br>'an imaginary line,' as the breezy </div><div style="margin:10px 0">coaches say, 'through your shoulders.' <br>Here's how to cheat: remember <br>your collarbone. Now the instructions <br>grow spiritual -- deep breathing, <br>relax and concentrate both; aim <br>for the front of the rim but miss it <br>deliberately so the ball goes in. <br>Ignore this part of the clinic </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and shoot 200 foul shots <br>every day. Teach yourself not to be <br>bored by any boring one of them.<br>You have to love to do this, and chances <br>are you don't; you'd love to be good <br>at it but not by a love that drives <br>you to shoot 200 foul shots <br>every day, and the lovingly unlaunched <br>foul shots we're talking about now -- <br>the clinic having served to bring us <br>together -- circle eccentrically <br>in a sky of stolid orbits <br>as unlike as you and I are <br>from the arcs those foul shots <br>leave behind when they go in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Matthews">William Matthews</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538787" data-title="Foul Shots: A Clinic de William Matthews" data-description="for Paul Levitt Be perpendicular to the basket, toes avid for the line. Already this description is perilously abstract: the ball and basket are round, the nailhead centered in the centerplank of the foul-circle is round, and though the ru..."></div> </div> </div>

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