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“We envision an age where we can watch and indulge in the beauty and awareness of a scene, an Aztec scene, a display of concentration and an exhibition of the bodies of men and women moving. We watch their arms and legs, we watch the control of the muscles of those limbs, we watch it for free, we see an art, we do not have to be Americans to salute this art. Whatever is brutish becomes sublime, whatever is strength becomes defined as strength in a pure display of the talent, as DeBusschere said to us, that is everybody’s talent in their own right. We watch the beautiful bodies of men moving up and down the court, we get turned on by them, moving. We watch them sit down and stretch out legs that could be embracing us, in love. But we watch their talent, it makes us feel ours. We are mesmerized by the sight of the bodies. A culture Western culture is not aware of. There is a grace in the men and women who play. A hedonism that turns into a sort of mysticism.” (Waldman & Mayer)