Breakfast at the Victory

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Breakfast at the Victory - James P. Carse - E-book

How could you ever tell? How much of what I do is what I am not doing? It was at that moment that I remembered Growler Grashevski. At the beginning of the wrestling season in my junior year of high school, Coach Weaver walked me over to the schedule attached to the wall of the wrestling room.

Breakfast at the Victory

He was pressing his fingers into my right bicep as though measuring it. This is an omen, I thought. Stabbing the schedule with a thick forefinger, he drew my attention to a date seven weeks off. It was our annual match with a high school in Milwaukee, a wrestling powerhouse.

His grip tightened and I could feel the blood in my fingertips. Growler was already a legend as a football player. He got his name from the animal sounds he made while attacking the opposing team. Rising from all fours as the other team came to the line of scrimmage, he would paw the air with a guttural blast of sound. He was most famous for his diving leaps, which carried all of his tightly muscled pounds over the blockers to seize the runner whom he would take to the ground with another roar of triumph.

In each of my wrestling matches during those seven weeks I had only one opponent in mind. Actually, he had taken residence in my daily consciousness. I exercised, drilled, and fought only against one person, no matter who was on the mat.

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My matches were taking on a dreamy quality that invited a strong response from Coach Weaver. Thinking is for philosophers. Despite my wish for a disabling injury or one of those dreadful infections you get from a mat burn, I found myself sitting next to Coach Weaver as he drove us to our match in Milwaukee. I wrestled in the heavyweight, or unlimited, class.

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I weighed scarcely and rarely wrestled anyone less than Mostly they were clownish fat boys with accidental strength and little coordination. The high moment for the audience was when they first took off their warm-ups. As for me, the relative absence of both muscle and bulk made my sudden nakedness a subject of hilarity.

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