The Yankees' center fielder closed on the ball, reached out, slammed against the ground, slid to a stop, head down.
The art that attempts not simply to observe but to inhabit that desolate place of self-loss becomes like an emotional modernism, in which there is no central narrator, no coherent story, where things are fractured and the safe ground slides away beneath our feet.
While sitting down with your feet flat on the ground, slide your fingers between your thigh and the edge of the office chair.
As soon as the cat's hind legs leave the ground, slide your free arm underneath the cat so that its hind legs are supported.
Step forward on left foot on count 1. Keeping your feet on the ground, slide your feet to the right so that you are facing the opposite direction, shifting your weight to your right leg on count 2. Spin around on your right foot to face the front again, completing the turn.
In between Piazza's blasts, Alomar tripled over center fielder Danny Bautista in the second inning and scored on Cedeño's grounder, sliding his left hand across home plate ahead of catcher Damian Miller's tag.
He offloads inside to Smith who slips, but on the wet ground slides over from 5m.
Truth be told, there's one awesome moment, and it's no spoiler to reveal it: a scene in which the distant planet's seemingly solid ground slides open, as if gliding on rails, to expose vast subterranean expanses.
As the political and moral ground slides beneath his feet and the Irish soldiers are simultaneously despised by nationalists as traitors and denounced by the English as mutineers, Willie clutches at familiar symbols in a desperate attempt to bridge the gap between the world he knows and the one he has stumbled into.
