Orin, B.U. punting, and Joelle (pp. 293–294)
Gerhardt Schtitt and deLint and their depressed prorectors had had to sit eating butterless popcorn through only one cartridge of one B.U. game to understand how Orin had found his major-sport niche. Orin was still just only lobbing, Schtitt observed, illustrating with the pointer and a multiple-replayed fourth down, but now with the leg instead, the only punting, and now with ten armored and testosterone-flushed factota to deal with what ever return an opponent could muster; Schtitt posited that Orin had stumbled by accident on a way, in this grotesquely physical and territorial U.S. game, to legitimate the same dependency on the one shot of lob that had kept him from developing the courage to develop his weaker areas
Context
Schtitt's whole character diagnosis of Orin is delivered as film criticism: one cartridge, popcorn, a pointer, and a multiple-replayed fourth down in the Viewing Room. The-body-tennis owns the content; the medium — character read off replayed footage — is this theme's.