Laughter usually requires an outsider's distance, though, and Mr. Doyle never releases us from Giorgio's point of view.
Whatever the pace of the particular baseball game we are watching, whatever its outcome, it holds us in its own time, and mercifully releases us from our own.
As Roger Angell wrote in his classic, "The Summer Game," "Whatever the pace of the particular baseball game we are watching, whatever its outcome, it holds us in its own continuum and mercifully releases us from our own".
Back in "CyberWorld," the greatest pleasures crop up where space itself is the subject, as in the plotless "Liberation," which releases us into midair, blissfully untethered by gravity or reason.
When anonymity releases us from responsibility for our actions, we will gladly abandon morality and harm anyone who obstructs our pursuit of what we think will make us happy.
By the time the final title track releases us to something like spiritual glory, it would be a hard heart indeed that did not feel like shedding a tear – and yet also feel enriched and even enlarged by what it had experienced.
