The Marriage of Golf and Football
First, this - 'Golf in the Kingdom of Shivas Irons':
and then, this
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me thinks marriage of Golf and Football is THE need of the day!
Golf and Football are NOT opposites.. they are two sides of a broken coin, which was once the same.
if only one understands what 'Golf' is and what 'Football' is, only then they could get the grave need for this marriage..
in a broad sense, golf and football could mean any (or all) of these...
- Golf = Apollo , Football = Dionysus;
- Golf = Yin , Football = Yang
- Golf = aesthetic of the bourgeoisie; football = aesthetic of the proletariat/subversive
- Golf =Borge's 'Aleph', Football = Borge's 'Zahir'
- Golf = Hesse's 'Siddhartha', Football = Kazantzakis' 'Zorba the Greek'
- Golf = Bergman's 'Seventh Seal', Football = Fincher's 'Fight Club'
- Golf = Wong Kar Wai's "In the mood for love", Football = Wong Kar Wai's 'Chungking express'
- Golf = Maugham's 'The Razor Edge', Football = Maugham's 'Moon and Sixpence'
- Golf = Satyajith ray, Football = Ritwik Ghatak
- Golf = Gandhi, Football = Ambedkar
- Golf = the sensual goddess 'MahaLakshmi', Football = Chandi Chaamundi / Kaali
- Golf = Narayana Guru, Football = E.V.R. Periyar
- Golf = Maharajapuram Santhanam / Aruna Sairam, Football = the Chemical Brothers / Eminem
- Golf = Beatles, Football = The Doors
- Golf = Anna Karenina , Football = Tereza (Unbearable lightness of being)
- Golf = Wine appreciation workshop, Football = Saturday group cult booze/dope/orgy
- Golf = Tendulkar / Damien Martin / Dravid, Football = Andrew Flintoff / Gilchrist / Afridi
- Golf = Sideways, Football = Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Golf = Coen brother's "Fargo", Football (!) = Coen brother's 'the Big Lebowski"
- Golf = Glen Mc.Grath Football = Shoaib Akthar
- Golf = Derrida's 'Frame' , Football =Derrida's 'Window'
- Golf = Hampi, Football = Varkala
- Golf = Roger Walsh, M.D , Football = V.S.Ramachandran, M.D
- Golf = Ramachandra Guha, Football = Ranajith Guha / Partha Chaterjee
- Golf = Sundara Ramaswamy,Football = Nakulan
- Golf = Nizami, Sadi (the miniaturists) Football = Vincent Van Gogh / Picasso
- Golf = Tolstoy , Football = Dostoevsky
- Golf = David Robert Joseph Beckham, Football = Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite a.k.a Kaká,
p.s: i neither know the rules of football nor the rules of Golf. But does that matter, eh? As some old fool said,'nothing could stop an idea whose time has come' , nothing could stop me from bullshittin!
