Off we go!

I

"The ball is round, a game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory. "

- Josef (Sepp) Herberger (1897-1977)

This line is also a part of the sequence that opens Run Lola Run (w./d. Tom Tykwer, 1998).

II

The film however open with another Sepp Herberger quote:

"Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel"

After the game is before the game.

Before this game there was another one. After this game there will be another one.

Some say that the complete "ball-is-round" quote was: "The ball is round so that the game can change direction..."

again:

The ball [earth] is round, a game [life] lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory.
The ball is round so that the game can change direction...
After the game is before the game.

III

Once, in the film a desperate Lola asks "What should I do? What should I do?"
...and eventually answers herself "I'll just keep running..." [...for it's the best she could do.]


Life's getting tough, the ball is round, before this game there was another, after the game is before another, what should I do?

The best that I can.

So off we go!

Life ki Fight

लोग अपनी लाइफ में कितना काम करते हैं यार!

ये लड़का था,

गाँव मे छोटे परिवार का था

साइकल पे स्कूल जाता था

घिस घिस के मराई

फिर बॉमबे आया

प्रोग्रामिंग करी

मॅतमॅटिक्स पढ़ी

लड़कियाँ घुमाई

शादी करी

फिर गाओं भर को भी पढ़ा दिया

सारी भैंस तक बी.अस्स.सी हो गयी

फिर पिक्चर बनाई, ओसकर कमाया

फिर प्रेसीडेंट ऑफ इंडिया बन गया

बाद में सोलह देशों का प्रेसीडेंट हो गया

फिर बॅटमॅन बन के ऊड गया

और कल मिला था

आज-कल dance करना सीख रहा है

और तो और

उस का एक बच्चा भी है...

लोग उसके नाम का आश्रम चलाते हैं.

क्या शान की लाइफ होगी उसकी

और एक तू देख...

भूत की तरह बैठा ब्लॉग्गिंग कर रहा है...

अबे कुछ सीख!!!

दुनिया चाँद पे चली गयी

और तू यहाँ अपना ल* पकड़ के बैठा है!

यार, लोग अपनी लाइफ में कितना काम करते हैं यार!

on Woody Allen

He has an uncanny ability to be right about all the wrong things. Makes me laugh about things I should be crying on. The one (and the only memorable one) to successfully break the fourth wall in a film! There's almost no better pick-me-up than an Allen film when you are low. More so because, it picks you up and still leaves you depressed (as in Annie Hall). Perfect Cocaine, helps you and harms you. :)

I just saw Annie Hall again. I do not know what to say, I am feeling good and bad at the same time. Here, let me paraphrase:

Alvy and Annie shake hands and kiss each other friendly like.  Annie crosses
the street, Alvy watching her go.  Then he turns, and slowly walks down the
street off screen.  His voice is heard over the scene:

					ALVY'S VOICE-OVER
			After that it got pretty late.  And we
			both hadda go, but it was great seeing
			Annie again, right?  I realized what a
			terrific person she was and-and how much
			fun it was just knowing her and I-I
			thought of that old joke, you know, this-
			this-this guy goes to a psychiatrist and
			says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy.  He
			thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the
			doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn
			him in?" And the guy says, "I would, but
			I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's
			pretty much how how I feet about
			relationships.  You know, they're totally
			irrational and crazy and absurd and ...
			but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it
			because, uh, most of us need the eggs.

					THE END

beautiful!

SOLUTION

All stories are essentially problem solving,
done with fun.

Mathematicians differ,
about the fun part,
so, they do it (solve the problem) with numbers.

But, that's not the point.
The point is, that there was a PROBLEM.

And it (the problem, not the mathematician, are you getting confused?) was with Abe.

It (the problem, not the mathematician, come on!!!) lay thus:
Abe would have nightmares that in an earlier afterlife, on a blue colored world, she was the president of a nation that no one liked.

But, that was not the whole of it (the problem) either, it (another part of the problem) was her scorpion.
See, he (it?) loved to play football.
What's wrong with that you ask?
Well, just that no ball was big enough!

Now, now, it (the situation) is more complicated than it (the situation) seems.

The scorpion had more than 5 eyes all over it's head looking in all directions possible, at all times possible, at once.
It (the reality, the eyes, the sight, who knows?) made him (it?) very confused.

Add to it that scorpions are very big creatures.
(It's funny, they seem to be tiny-tiny things in Abe's nightmares.)
Not unlike the mathematicians, who are big, inside the heads.
But, unlike the mathematicians, scorpions are just big (outside their heads, where else???).
Their heads so high, they (it?, the scorpion, who else???) think that the head had needed wings in the first place to climb up through all that body.

So, you see, no ball was big enough.

This, made the scorpion unhappy.
Which, was another part of the problem.
Which, made Abe unhappy.
Which, is unlike the mathematicians, who are happy to look at a problem and happier when they solve it.
Which, is unlike Abe, because she was not a mathematician.
Which, is unlike her cat, because it (Abe's cat) was a mathematician.

Abe's cat, the mathematician, had given a set of equations (and blamed it on Shrod..something), that were very important in the country of Abe's nightmares, where she (Abe, not the cat, the cat's 'it', not 'she', wait haven't I told you this part?) had been president.
Or, so it seemed, because the scorpion's (Abe's scorpion's) cat had also given a set of principles that added fragile uncertainity to Abe's cat's equations, and seemed to complement each other well (this came in Abe's nightmares too, thogh she never knew her scorpion's cat!)

Whew!

See, Abe's not the kind to bother.
But, it (the situation) was different, this time.
This time, it (the problem, or a part thereof) was with her scorpion too.
The scorpion was her PET.
And,
in any world, you do not pet one. You usually leave them ALONE.
In this world, they initiate the leaving ALONE part.
(You still do not pet them, their heads are too high.)

But, being the inquisitive young thing (IYT as opposed to PYT in her nightmares) Abe was,
she (Abe, this is getting ridiculous!!!) wanted to know,
why is it that,
some one would...
want to be alone?
or
want to 'leave alone'?
or
want to be left alone?

It is this that Abe was contemplating when the scorpion poked her in the eye!

This (the poking, not pun) is considered enlightening!

See, people in Abe's world try to follow mathematicians particularly of the feline species,
when they too close their eyes (all of them) and realize, the world is not there.

When you get "enlightened", you really go thru three stages:

1. Hurt: "It hurts!!!", "Ow! Ow! Ow!", "OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!"
2. Denial: "I can't see!", "Oh! so no more world!", "no more problems!!!"
and finally, as you learn to listen to other senses:
3. Enlightenment: "!", "!", "shit!"

when you go blind, you just can't see when you look. period.

Abe didn't go blind because she was not looking,
but, then there were those 3 stages.

Abe's problem was resolved.

This was just like the problems in the country, in the world, in her nightmares, where, all problems could be solved with a good poke, but, not with scorpions, not with cats either.

She no longer has a pet.

Consequently, it's the scorpion whose is alone now, and uses his poker to poke himself ('it' doesn't sound right here, does it?).

The cats are still trying to solve the 'no-ball-big-enough' with numbers...

What they have for now looks blue colored...

This might be a problem.

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