For me -- sports is all about a moment in time -- and once it's gone, I avoid
it like an old campsite.

I know that there are people even more fanatic than you -- who will videotape
an entire season -- and play it back over the off-season -- but here I invoke
the wisdom of Derek -- if your brain cells are capable of enjoying that --
can't they be put to some better use?

Nor -- would I ever sit through a play or film just to get to a few parts that
really excited me.

Fortunately, though, there are some that hold me tight from curtain to
curtain.  Wilde's "Ideal Husband" is one such play -- "Good, Bad, Ugly" is one
such film -- a film where almost every line of dialog is memorable (and I'm
not the only one who has memorized many of them) and almost every frame seems
to be another Caravaggio painting.

Operas are special case -- since I'd rather hear the songs in dramatic context
rather than recital -- so I'm willing to endure the downtime.

But isn't Mozart the exception? There is no dead space in Don Giovanni, Magic
Flute, Abduction etc -- it's one golden moment after another.

Shouldn't some special term be used to distinguish these exceptional programs
from all the others ?

Maybe -- Derek would call them "art" ?




I infer you're a football fan, so I ask: How about you? Would you try to
recreate the moment any differently? My answer assumed I hadn't watched the
event
in some years.
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