'This simple, family-friendly game has been a form of salvation—and motivation to venture out of the house, if not very far.'
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Summer arrived about two weeks ago. It was delivered in a white chariot and had traveled from China in a long cardboard box. Black letters expelled out the contents:If the early days of our isolation were soothed with puzzling, since May this simple, family-friendly game has been a form of salvation—and motivation to venture out of the house, if not very far. The net is a handsome one that doesn’t require stakes and string, and is sturdy enough for a red-breasted robin to perch on.
Chez nous, we don’t play competitively, or by the rules. As to technique, well I have none—except to go after the shuttlecock as if I were swatting a fly. Still even an amateur like me is rewarded by the sweet “ping” that sounds out after a good swing. Now if only I could make my match kit sing like the American examples photographed by Irving Penn in 1944 for a story on winter play clothes.
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