Published: Dec. 13, 2012
Words: 7,345 (approximate)
Language: English (New Zealand dialect)
ISBN: 9781301483365

Short description

Rugby. How is a game so big in such a small place? How does it have so many followers, many of whom do not play themselves? Is there a more meaningful, underlying and yet controlling purpose of it?

Extended description

Is there a game going on that rugby imitates? Like Plato's 'idea'?. Do the positions of the players have more relevance than being for the sole purpose of playing the game of rugby in its on field form? What was the game born from? Was it a need for sport? Or was the sport of it born from something else? From an attitude of a way to live one’s life? That it ‘the game of rugby’ is merely a simplistic and inarticulate cultural expression of something much more meaningful and relevant to our everyday lives?

Tags

inspiration, rugby, new zealand, zen, astrology, sport

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Review by: Annie Kitson on Jan. 15, 2013 :
I enjoyed this story. It gives a short overview of what rugby is all about. The places players play and the type of character best suited to this area of play, briefly suggesting that the astrological time of birth may have a bearing on the suitability of that choice.
The flexibility needed as play changes within the game and a subtle inference that our real lives may be led the same way.
A light hearted interesting read.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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