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Bowling Alleys Are American Pockets of Purgatory

It’s a sport/game/leisure activity so simple that I always feel vaguely self-conscious actually explaining it out loud: “Well, you, um, try to knock down pins with a ball.”

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It’s a “pastime” in the truest sense of the word in that only a species with so much time to pass could have devised and named it. It’s a sport/game/leisure activity so simple that I always feel vaguely self-conscious actually explaining it out loud: “Well, you, um, try to knock down pins with a ball.” And as a subject, it is probably undeserving of hard contemplative thought or, more germane to what you’re looking at right now, an exploration of its universe via words and photographs.