How like the beating of a heart the bass when it's played the way it's supposed to be played when you're chest is so tight and you can hear every lub dub every stick tap on the skin of the drum and when you try to take flight you fall short not of breath but because of broken wings or some other subtle pressure you sin which is the same as falling short so wrote Aristotle of phronesis in his Nichomachean and neither is the man who aims at the target an archer worth his salt unless he actually hits the mark not once or twice but all the time consistently and with a certain ease that befits a master one adept at this or that craft with technique beyond skill and practical wisdom in the fingers that lock the arrow and draw the bow he is an archer who hits the mark bull's eye through the straw and doesn't think twice about his aim or the tension on his bow or the crook of her elbow or of her knee ...