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Mina di Sospiro, Guido.
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Di Sospiro, Guido Mina.
Table tennis players -- Biography.
Sports -- Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
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The metaphysics of ping-pong [electronic resource] : table tennis as a journey of self-discovery / Guido Mina di Sospiro.
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Mina di Sospiro, Guido.
Newburyport : Quest Books, c2015.
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Di Sospiro, Guido Mina.
Table tennis players -- Biography.
Sports -- Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
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When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his lifelong passion for table tennis, keen philosopher Guido Mina di Sospiro sets out to learn the game properly.Guido's love for spinning a feather-weight ball takes him from his local Ping-Pong club, populated by idiosyncratic players with extraordinary stories to tell, to training drills with a world-class coach. This seemingly harmless game also leads him into sticky situations in the CIA headquarters and the ganglands of Washington, D.C. Woven throughout his Ping-Pong epiphany are philosophical ruminations on Plato and Aristotle, meta.
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