hooded in silence, out of the connectedness of all events
they have the really top player's way of shutting the whole neural net down for brief periods, staring at the space they took up, hooded in silence, removed, for a moment, from the connectedness of all events.
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The top players can drop out of contact at will, shutting the neural net down and going hooded and silent, removed from the connectedness of all events. In the middle of a room full of teammates it names a chosen sealing-off, a stillness that is also an absence, the self withdrawn behind its own fatigue into a place the banter cannot reach. Landed here on the withdrawal-from-connection substance; the top-player physiology is the-body-tennis's. [sweep · shared-ground the-body-tennis]