Snooker

Snooker as a morality play

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In the past I have usually viewed snooker as an aesthetic experience. The constantly shifting pattern of colours as the balls are propelled over the green baize can be very pleasurable. I have been known to become so fascinated by the balletic positions adopted by the players that I have used the freeze-frame facility on … Read more

The art of snooker

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I discovered today a pleasurable way of tackling the task set by the tutor of the life-drawing class I normally attend. Regular readers will remember, perhaps, that during our time in quarantine we were asked to use the pause button on our TV controls to make rapid sketches of people appearing in films. I did … Read more