Category: OIAAT
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Fluency, Interrupted
In September 1991, at the Ryder Cup on Kiawah Island, Bernhard Langer stood over a putt he had made thousands of times before and could not trust himself to make now. It was the sort of distance that professional golfers do not ordinarily regard as a problem. They have made putts like this so often…
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The Line No One Drew
Have you ever noticed how ants move in a perfect line to a place no one told them about and back again, as if they had been given directions by someone extremely small and extremely bossy? It is usually midday when you notice them. The kind of heat that flattens everything except the things that…
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The Height of Belief
I have asked a few celebrities questions in my life, which is already more than I would have predicted for myself, and almost all of them have been answered with admirable patience. There was one exception. This was during the shooting of Guna. I was twelve, maybe thirteen, which is the age at which you…
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Nine Dollars and Eighty Cents
Somewhere outside the city, along a quiet stretch of railroad track that has seen better centuries, a small group of people are walking slowly through the evening air reciting books to one another. One man is repeating a passage from Plato’s Republic. Another has taken responsibility for the Book of Ecclesiastes. A third is carrying…
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The Invention of Noon
It is the first weekend of March, which means that sometime tonight the nation will once again participate in its biannual ritual of arguing with the clock. On the East Coast, the last respectable piles of snow are receding into damp resignation. In Seattle, we have already endured the annual forecast that confidently predicted snow…
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