Ben’s Reviews > Beartown > Status Update

« We burn and bleed and cry, fully aware that the most the sport can give us, in the very best scenario, is incomprehensible meager and worthless: just a few isolated moments of transcendence. That’s all.

But what the hell else is life made of? »

« when the season is over he’ll go home and —deep down— will wish what we all wish whenever we leave something: that it’s going to collapse. That nothing will work without us. That we’re indispensable. But nothing will happen, the rink will remain standing, and the club will live on. »