experiment 2 day 3

a standard formula looks like this (0 v [0) v 0] etc

so young and full of passion

even if wed a wish to

its not within our power to stop him

cricket can be difficult to pin down

it takes place upon a floating spinning interstellar disc

over a vague vast period of time

its forms change constantly each

particular form is always absolutely interchangeable

with any other form hussey will umpire the afternoon session

crickets absurdity is not only apparent but actual

a michael clarke form is taken up and developed

the infinite is added to

(clarke v [duminy) + steyn] etc

today was unthinkable

but only if yr lazy baby

each taking up of form constitutes a battle between universes

eventually there is some kind of outcome

things fall a certain way and the entire field of universes are reconstituted

accordingly if one is to grasp this through the

commitment of some act of passion sense the field and come to live with it

one is now infinite siddhartha joan of arc kierkegaard 4ier

duminy everything falls head over heels for duminy

to understand the greatness of duminys innings one only has to

think what if mcgrath and warne were playing and realise

it would have made absolutely no difference

experiment 2 day 1

the sun deligthful green squares shimmering and shifting on vertical planes

crowd moronic beer snakes delightful

clarke bats an innings rooted in faith – that at some point his fellows would choose also to bat or that by virtue of still being in the time would arrive for him to march launch an assault of his own

amidst dropping wkts and a faithless crowd with no time for cricket or clarke or a struggling team clarke maintains. 30 runs from 150 balls he would have been perfectly happy to have scored 0 yet still be in after 150 balls. its possible a test match rests on the movements of clarkes faith and the way the powers it produces fall

the experiment so far has followed a form of attrition. rsa largely set benign fields bowled full and straight (very well) and waited for errors clarke denied all possibility of error and on the strength of faith batted himself deep into the ground. day 2 we watch carefully for the first signs of him wriggling free then blazing in the infinite. an innings of value = to 2 simultaneuous beer snakes stretching the length of the great southern stand concourse – bending in an unlikely curve to join up at the ends faith and son in tact

experiment 1 – summary document

rsa v aus 08/09 waca

admire the right apply own

techniques of faith

floors blue wcws likes

doors peeling

the cat rests apply own

techniques of faith gardens

cooch smells dried out her shit

smells dried out the heats on

match considers

abraham david lynch has it coo

ch smells dried out her shit

counts more than prophets calculate

admire the right

though it may be absurd

bungled defence blue

wcws likes doors peeling

experiment 1 – report

faith falls to a side

somehow from some point of judgement

a favourite outcome is determined

the faithful know that every movement every fall is ultimately a favourable one for themselves

(the self not being an individual but an elemement in a purely consistent universe)

universes battle for faith

capturing believers souls

mcgrath will not be bothered his prophecy is a joke

it was never anymore than a provocative expression of his unbending belief

the numbers will always come up his way in the end

the mutterman returns home faith and son in tact

experiment 1 day 3

every test match is a repetition of abrahams journey to moriah and back home, faith and son in tact

every movement is desperate

to make a prophecy of 3-0 the knight is certain that in a contest of movements a large sum of these movements fall favourably in one particular direction… or a very small number of very great movements fall that way. It is a lot to be sure of ‚Äì that in the end the sum of all movements will belong to the prophets favourite.

no knight with a favourite ever prophesies against it. otherwise abrahams done for

3 days there – the journey back is all downhill, abraham is feeling spritely and makes it home in two

the movements of the knight are completely resigned

rsa v aus : an analysis of faith : experiment match 1 – day 0

with a 3-0 prediction of another whitewash the mutterman has posed the idea the entire series will dwell on

over the three test matches the cricket will explore territories of faith and perhaps bring about some epiphanies on the topic

the ultimate test will be whether mutterman is proven to be one of johannes de silentio’s knights of faith. how this may be proved or exactly what set of circumstances would constitute proof cannot be known. this is only a test. an experimentation

faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off

the end of the world as we know it day 1

The hardest thing is not going to be able to walk out with Haydos again in a Test match – Justin Langer

“There are Warne and McGrath cakes in the press box,” reports Andrew, licking his lips. “And a Justin Langer profiterole mountain.” Bang goes another New Year’s resolution from our man on the spotcricinfo ball by ball

didnt get to see any of the play today but i did get to see the cakes