THE SPORTING SCENE about the 2005 baseball season and the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros…What first comes back to mind here is not a play or a strikeout but a noise: the flat, room-filling whock!
By Roger Angell The New Yorker, November 21 , 2005P. 56 THE SPORTING SCENE about the 2005 baseball season and the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros…What first comes back to mind here is not a play or a strikeout but a noise: the flat, room-filling whock!
They move to the big city, where they share flats, rooming-houses, hostels or halls together, in twos and threes and fours.
I have been staying with the 7th Day Adventists but now I live in a bachelor's flat – one room, with 23 men and five women.
It said the Chicken Marsala was too sweet, the cola was too warm and flat, the room too smoky and the service poor.
Players complaining of a flat dressing room, fans reeling at their team's soporific adhesion to a ball going nowhere, and former players rolling despondent eyes in television studios.
Five minutes later we got a call saying he'd somehow locked himself in the block of flats' bin room, whose door is right next to two other flats.
It was a service flat; sitting-room, bedroom, bath.
He writes, "Houses and flats and rooms had the same power for Yeats as phases of the moon".
We shared flats, dressing rooms, boyfriends, bills, good times and bad times, success and failure; a couple of extravagant young dreamers, a couple of aching elders, always entertainers.
