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the Bain transcript: traversion is character

quote

Traversion is character, according to Schtitt.

Context

Schtitt's doctrine compressed to an aphorism, twice repeated in the interview: how a body moves through and crosses is who it is. "Traversion is character" is the body-as-machine creed at its most abstract — not what you hit but how you traverse, the court-movement and the threshold-crossing read as the self's actual signature. The measure of the player is in the transit.

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