In the Book of Acts, God instructs Ananias to meet Saul on "the street that is called Straight" in Damascus-- Mark Twain calls this the only joke in the Bible-- because Straight Street is a actually a winding road, so though it is called Straight, it is actually serpentine-- hysterical in the context of that book-- and sometimes, whence the street is not straight then you must wind how you may . . . such as when David smote the pickleball that was travelling very wide and thus David smoteth the ball around the net-pole and into the field of play, making David victorious both in the eyes of God and the eyes of men.
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the number of different movements required to propel dave's mesomorphic form laterally in order to reach that ball is something to witness. the arm goes up, the shoulders pull down, there's a slight stumble that adds momentum, and then the coup de grace. perhaps not grace. just a coup, really.
i also had to hold the paddle with my outstretched fingertips to reach the ball. maximum effort.
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