Steve Waugh : out of my comfort zone / Steve Waugh

genre – psychological thriller

Our hero is filled with intense and incessant self doubt, the life presented in this autobiography is pervaded by the threat of failure and an unshakeable feeling of insufficiency. Something has to give.

The story reaches it climax at the 1999 world cup.

– There’s a minute area on the bat which, when found, doesn’t vibrate in your hands as you connect with the ball but rather just allows it to become one with the timber for a split second before it catapults off into the stratosphere –

Continually returning to concepts ideas or zones of emotional affect but in different complex relations with other points – ball-bat-hands-mind – the book is hauntingly similar in structure to Deleuze & Guattari’s a thousand plateaus. It is a book of repetition – mind-ball-hands-bat – from out of that repetition there is a slow development of a character’s immense life. Another kinship, to Proust this time. This is truly a thriller of philosophical & (anti) psychological literary genius. Though the book probably appears to be ill written this is undoubtedly a trap. I eagerly await the next 5 volumes.