From the SABR biography of Amos Rusie, one of the great 19th-Century pitchers:
His arm was gone, and his heavy drinking did not alleviate the situation.
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So many potential contexts where it would perfectly apply. A WWI memoir. A Kafkaesque novel. If I were presented with it de novo in a game where you had to invent a piece of literature it came from, I’m not sure baseball is a context I’d think of to place it in.
Also: it’s a great possibility for a story prompt, one of which hasn’t appeared here for a while. I guess if something were published using it, it’d have to be an epigraph rather than a line in the story, but that’s okay right?Report
It;s a trope in Carl Hiaasen novels that one of the bad guys loses or at least badly mangles an arm. And they there’s Larry Niven’s Gil The ARM, who lost his real arm and got a psychic one in return.Report
What do you think, should we make it a story prompt? Or the fact that’s it’s someone’s work means we shouldn’t?
Hivemind, is there interest? Legal – would this fly?Report
“Down payment on a 150-inch TV.”Report
Interest.Report
Didn’t one of Hiaasen’s bad guys have a weed wacker for a prosthetic hand in one of his books?Report
Chemo from Skin Tight, says Google.Report
Are you telling me there is a problem that alcohol can’t solve?Report
“Ah. My arm is missing.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidZCvGHdBM&t=3m30sReport