Recall
The red head, hard diagonals, and floating game-objects make competition feel childish and cruel at once. The title turns sportsmanship into emotional prohibition, as if play has become another arena where pain has to perform as comedy.
Song Pair
Mac Miller & Earl Sweatshirt - The Star Room
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Source
source filename: theresnocryingintabletennis.jpg
site image: art-009-theres-no-crying-in-table-tennis.jpg
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mask 17fool/hero 18hand 17performance 19red sun / red star 15color guy 13teeth 17cartoon 19diagonal 11portrait 40sun / star 16
Colors
grayorange / brownredblackpink / purple
Subjects
Part of
Red Sun / Fool / OverexposureGlove / Hand / ContactPing Pong / Hero / MaskMask / Face / Symbol-PersonAnimal / Cartoon / Trickster
Connectedness #7 of 128
Manual Priority Evidence
- red (!)
- black (!)
- star (!)
- mask (!!)
- symbolic (!!)
- comic (!)
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Song Pairing: Mac Miller & Earl Sweatshirt - The Star Room
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Works Cited
- The Book of Disquiet verified Fernando Pessoa
- I See Satan Fall Like Lightning verified René Girard