a bit over the top, but enjoyable forget-after-reading approach to snooker, ticking off many of its historical details in chapters such as "truth"
William Faulkner avowed, "The field [of battle] only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
In Japanese philosophy, the practice of wabi-sabi centres around the embracing of imperfection. George Orwell claimed that 'the essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection'; 'every book,' he said, 'is a failure.' Victorian writer John Ruskin went further, suggesting that it is only by welcoming imperfection that liberated, create work becomes possible: 'To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality.'
