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#like idk which chapter it is but when nick and manny do the throw with the train
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rereading 20020 bc of course i am and. i just love nine okay.
#17776#20020#nine 17776#ten 17776#chatter#ITS JUST SO GOOD OKAY this story means EVERYTHING to me#like the story. the themes. the characters#the way it is TOLD if i can ever make something even half as good#just. god. i love all of jon bois stuff i watch all his documentaries on secret base#and like i know NOTHING about sports i did not come from a sports family none of this was passed down to me#and yet every single time his stuff gets me okay. and im like. yeah. yeah i get it.#its just. the stories. the land. the way its all happened before and will again#like idk which chapter it is but when nick and manny do the throw with the train#and how its like a train that ran that EXACT same route and its like#these are! football fields! arbitrarily stretched out to the us borders!#there should not be such poetry in it AND YET#literally i think juice has a line about it somewhere idk what it is just#its art without an artist. and it IS it really is#god. i tear up every time at that video. the way nick uses his obt so manny doesnt have to#the way the camera follows the train#the way every other team takes the bate and im like#nobody else is doing it like 17776 and 20020! nobody!!!!#and im like. this is it. this is what its about#these are the stories we can tell. the stories that are possible to tell#this is such a fundamental part of me AS IM SURE IS OBVIOUS#GOT A WHOLE ESSAY IN THE TAGS HERE#sometimes i think about how i was there when these were both posting#and im like. no matter what else has happened in my life#it was worth it bc i get to live in a world where stories like this exist#and will continue to be worth it bc they will continue to exist. and one day im gonna read the next part
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