Monday, September 10, 2007

Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight

Rather interesting how at first they were invisible to everyone but once they took part in the activities people took to them and recognized them. The essay seemed like he wanted to talk about the betting and how it worked more that the tradition and culture of why cockfighting took place. Betting is really the same everywhere and what ever the activity is, I don't think there was a need for so much of the betting.

"The slaughter in the cock ring is not a depiction of how things literally are among men, but, what is almost worse, of how, from a particular angle, they imaginatively are." It works as a comparison because life is chaotic, aggressive, and intense.

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