#p. 30

[everyillumi]

[bintsameer]

The Messenger ﷺ said:

“Frequently remember the destroyer of desires (i.e. death).”

[Ibn Mājah, 4258 | Translated by Raha Batts]

[everyillumi]

[everyillumi]

[everyillumi]

[firstreadbooks]

“I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of the same exercise.”

Chapter 2, p.30 (TFiOS)

There’s a lot more to basketball than this? Like all the other players on the field attempting to be the one to put the spherical object through the toroidal object? What use is talking like a magniloquent bastard?

[firstreadbooks]

“I was, like, the prototypical white Hoosier kid,” he said, “I was all about resurrecting the lost art of the midrange jumper, but then one day I was shooting free throws – just standing at the foul line at the North Central gym shooting from a rack of balls. All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.”

Chapter 2, p.30 (TFiOS)

Jesus Everloving Christ. Is this or is this not the worst possible way to state that you lost interest in a formerly cherished hobby? Is he trying to impress her in some deep, faux-losophical way or does Jawn have a thing when it comes to basketball players?

[firstreadbooks]

“I wasn’t bad, but all the shoes and balls are Cancer Perks.”

Chapter 2, p.30 (TFiOS)

So. Now Cancer Perks are inconvenient to you. You sure changed your tune.