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When I walked into class on Tuesday it was really the first class of my new semester, my fresh start. (the class before had just gone over the syllabus and run a lottery) Everything became a brain trigger. That’s right desks and paper, not bed and books. Collective opinions, not just your own. Okay I remember now…

The pictures trigger several spasms of the brain. I saw traveling through the city of Ephesus, or I was reading Gulliver’s Travel’s in my garden. To me, both picture has a clearly similar theme of transformation. The subjectivity of the first piece gave rise to its own transformative properties. The second one depicting an actual transformation.

As to tennis and genre connection, I’ll admit I had a difficult time with the reading, if not simply because I have never really understood tennis. Freeman’s argument was built around these layers of rules and play folding over each other like freshly cooked pasta. I was having brain spasms all the way back to the seventh grade tennis unit in gym, listening to all of the rules, and the ceremony around it. If I learned anything from the article, it’s that tennis, and genre, and even the interpretation of the above pictures, are not like I learned about in gym. The “rules for play” cannot guarantee me any success at the game if my technique or timing is lousy. It is also very hard for any of these things to exist without other players, because they’re function would just need to be replaced. In this instance the competition for the genre that will be the set of rules and techniques generally accepted. Not really a winner and loser, but an evolution or agreement.