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door opens, a mythic-like creature writhes in the scorching brightness of
a sun at midday strength, like a vampire exposed by its fatalistic enemy.
He is standing there, naked bar a pair of tight, short boxers. How fortune
has smiled upon me, I am eternally thankful for the dark screen door mesh
protecting my fragile eyes from a sight enough to send one to one's grave,
not to mention the potential for eye damage from the reflected UV rays.
"Would you like a drink?" offers the always wonderfully generous Dave, as
he checks the fridge, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "Darn, fresh out"
he adds, before I answer. Another stench invades my nostrils, this time not rotting doggie poop, left out to evaporate into the air conditioning system. No, this is another rot, stone fruit one wonders, just before my eyes focus in on an undistinguishable pile of brown muck on a plate, on the kitchen bench. I turn on the tap, looking for an answer as to why the kitchen looks and smells like a pig-sty, or even like the dank, dark depths of a forest, overcome by a myriad of mosses and lichen. "Must be the pressures of a hectic professional basketball career" I conclude. "So what do you do in your free moments, Dave?" I question as I'm immediately greeted with the answer. We enter his bedroom. The absence of light hides the entire wardrobe strewn across the floor, including his, what now must be a priceless piece of memorabilia, school uniform. As Dave glides the mouse across the mat, the room is filled by shadows on the wall created by an iridescent white light. Secrets of the mysterious DLV unravel each passing moment. "This is my life away from basketball" Dave concludes. "Games", he says slyly as a sheepish grin creeps across his face. This is a totally different to the Dave of the public domain, one who cut his eyetooth on the rough and tough courts of TVCS high school ball, against the likes of none other than Matthew Inglis, among others. "There's a lot about me most people don't know" says a philosophic Dave, as we are about to impart on an excursion into uncharted territory, to discover a Dave very different from public perception. …For the complete article, please refer to the DC Magazine issue in question |
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