I have enjoyed pinball from an early age, and have surely played every machine in the red-light district of central London, the seaside resort towns on England's southern coast, and all points in between. And yet I have never witnessed anyone play pinball as well as he does. That young man with profound hearing loss, an inability to speak, and blindness clearly plays pinball extremely well.
He stands absolutely still as he plays, achieving a singularity with the game. He ineffably senses the contours of the playing surface and never fails to play the ball perfectly. He plays intuitively as he racks up such huge amounts of points that the scoring mechanism fails. That young man with profound hearing loss, an inability to speak and blindness clearly plays pinball extremely well.
He is so virtuosic at pinball that I suspect there is some sort of fraud. That said, I note the aforementioned virtuosic pinballer has an exceptionally limber carpus.
What is the secret to his technique? I could not even begin to speculate. What is the basis of his exceptional skill?
Well, come to think of it, he's completely unperturbed by external stimuli; for instance, he is unable to perceive the characteristic sounds of the pinball machine, nor its intermittent illuminations. Personally, I believe he interacts via olfaction. He never fails to get an extra ball and I've never seen him lose.
Heretofore, I had believed myself to be the world's foremost pinballist but I recently ceded him the championship.
He defeats me even when we play on my favored machine. He's led in by his acolytes and then he takes it from there. He's uncannily deft at manipulating the paddles and, as previously noted, I've never seen him lose. I really have to hand it to him: that young man with profound hearing loss, an inability to speak and blindness clearly plays pinball extremely well.
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