Hardball is neither hard, nor balls. It is loud, sometimes fast. Fast, meaning rushed, too quick for any answer but the sharp, the snide, the snippet. Unable to think deeply or completely reduces us to the precooked and canned messages. neither rhetoric, logic nor poetry grows in the hardball soil.

but there is Stature Of Imitation.
Statue To Imitators.
Bad musicians mistake fast with loud. As they increase one they increase the other.

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