.

while talking tennis a few days ago,
stirring honey into coffee and discussing
style ... he said that one should keep
reinventing one's moves, but still,
occassionally send the ball flat-and-
barely-over-the-net, whereas I
insisted on placement, depth of court,
territorializing the back by withdrawing
into the farthest possible retreat,
putting a spin on the ball and sailing
it high over the net to catch one`s
opponent off-balance and unprepared
for the bounce, that I could always
get the ball high and that, if anything,
my vollies were always too long until
I learned, am still learning, how to
hold the racquet in the air, just so,
and just wait for the ball to react
to its own force ...

the depth, the arc, the spin,
the ball becoming the fall.

so he said,

"ya-maybe. isn't that a risk?"

and I replied,

"but also the point."

"Movement always happens behind
the thinker's back, or in the moment
when he blinks." (Deleuze & Parnet)