Where’s Jacques Derrida been hiding all these years?
Oh my word, I’d forgotten about Sharkey’s 3D Pool.
What a grand old game.
I wouldn’t have known anything about that as an eight-year-old playing games after school.
Much like I knew absolutely nothing about how to play pool well.
I mainly just liked the noise it made when a ball was potted.
Whether it was my ball or my opponent’s ball: that was just extraneous detail.
Sharkey was obviously the best: he could scrub the table in a single run if the mood struck.
Those names were hours of fun for eight-year-old Ollie.
One name that seemed by contrast to be extremely ordinary was Jac Derida.
What the fuck is he doing in Sharkey’s 3D Pool?
The master of post-structuralist deconstruction, Differance, and phallogocentrism, shooting pool in Sharkey’s club?
Am I missing something here?
Is this like Lost?
Are all these names actually obscure references to famous thinkers?
Is Wild-Shot Willy some world-famous theologian I’ve never heard about?
That little detail just blew my mind momentarily.
Anyway, Sharkey’s 3D Pool.
