Fundraiser prep: the piaffer in place

texture · 20 Nov YDAU

• When: 20 Nov YDAU, the E.T.A. locker room as the squads dress for the fundraiser exhibition against the Québec Jr. Team.
• What: In the pre-exhibition dressing ritual — grips wrapped, superstitions running, "fart-accusations and -denials," rumors cycling about the Québec juniors, the severe weather, and whether the M.I.T. Union has enough indoor courts for the B squads to even play — Zoltan surfaces one last time as a body in motion: "The Csikszentmihalyi kid was doing a kind of piaffer in place, his knees hitting his chest, stretching his hip-flexors out." A wordless final cameo, in the same room where all three of his appearances live.