Winners And Losers

Winners and LosersThe next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. The main thing is to play.--Nick "The Greek" DandolosAquinas, Augustine, Gregory, Jude--these and other talismanic names rolled like loose ballast through my empty mind. The examination was at an end and, crouched like a cur at my desk. I had made the usual appeals, which they in their infinite wisdom, had ignored. And so it was not until the headmaster, said, "Time, gentlemen, time," that I d...