And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.

And when you start thinking of sports that way, as being about anything that fits or just anything instead of being about a game played on a field someplace, thats when its easy to start thinking of other things less discriminantly: of sports as an arm of the entertainment industry, of the field or the court or the ice as a stage, of sports media as interactive theater, or Grand Guignol, or commedia dellarte, of Tom Arnold and the supremely awful Dennis Miller as being interesting sports personalities.

[…] vainly I had sought to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow

He believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology.