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...Moss Point, Miss...
Camus pushes these questions up the fashionable modern Parnassus-inhabited by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gide, and all manner of existentialists. In the end, a little existentialist moss clings to his rolling stone, and Camus achieves his answer: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged . . . There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Sisyphus has achieved "a total absence of hope (which has nothing to do with despair)." Rope or Cravat? While it is no news, of course, that French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily...
Then there were two Chicago outs. Lumbering Les Moss stepped up and patted an easy grounder to Carey at third. That should have been the ball game. But Carey accomplished the incredible: he muffed the chance. Moss was safe. Before sanity came back to the stadium, three runs were home, and Chicago was in front at last...
Minnie Minoso drew a walk and was sacrificed to second. Still switching players as fast as he could remember their names, Casey had brought Tom Morgan in to pitch. Understandably, Bauer dropped a wide throw, and Minoso slid into third. Even so, the Yanks seemed safe. Catcher Moss bounced a routine grounder down to Phil Rizzuto. Incredibly, the incredible happened again. Robinson dropped Rizzuto's peg, Minoso came home, and the Sox were back in front. This time they held on to their lead and walked off the field winners...
...Flower Arranger Sofu's harvest were ready for display in Paris' Bagatelle chateau. Withered leaves on a dead branch suspended from the ceiling had become a mobile titled Dance of the Dying Leaves; tiger lilies, hydrangeas and irises blended into a scarlet-and-gold Japanese Landscape; a moss-covered oak branch was part of a tableau, On the Edge of the Lake...