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"Television reduces golf to a two-dimensional spectacle as skin-deep, finally, as a pornographic film; in its tendency to show golf as a series of putts that go in the hole or not, television presents a complicated, pleasurable activity stripped of foreplay, feeling, and the vast terrestrial and atmospheric context that corresponds, in this possibly overextended metaphor, to courtship."
— Feb 16, 2017 03:33PM
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Patrick King
is on page 176 of 201
Television reduces golf to a two-dimensional spectacle as skin-deep, finally, as a pornographic film; in its tendency to show golf as a series of putts that go in the hole or not, television presents a complicated, pleasurable activity stripped of foreplay, feeling, and the vast terrestrial and atmospheric context that corresponds, in this possibly overextended metaphor, to courtship.
— Feb 16, 2017 03:33PM
Patrick King
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"Meanwhile, back at the public courses, mayhem reigns."
— Feb 13, 2017 07:48AM
