In memory of poet May Swenson and sports novelist Rozanne Ruth “Zan” Knudson:
Maureen Dowd in today’s New York Times:
“It’s a similar syndrome to the one Katharine Hepburn’s star athlete and her supercilious fiancé have in ‘Pat and Mike.’
The fiancé is always belittling Hepburn, so whenever he’s in the stands, her tennis and golf go kerflooey. Finally, her manager, played by Spencer Tracy, asks the fiancé to stay away from big matches, explaining, ‘You are the wrong jockey for this chick.’
‘You know, except when you’re around, we got a very valuable piece of property here,’ he says, later adding, ‘When you’re around, she’s no good, she’s dead, see?'”
The Gameplayers of Zan:
“Then she has a vision of herself,
enclosed by an unfolded hypercube,
and then an immense screen
behind it covered by complex,
ever-shifting patterns….”
“Does the word ‘tesseract’
mean anything to you?“
— Robert A. Heinlein