A beautiful mind?
Nobel prize winner John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, secretly helped the government with his work in cryptography, but his life took a nightmarish turn into paranoia.
Dr Henry Jekyll & Mr Edward Hyde, the short story of a man tortured by dualistic personalities and split personality disorder.
Writer, producer, animator, Matt Groening was inspired to include this theme in his long running satirical depiction of middle class America when he introduced us to Dr. Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, Jr., aka Sideshow Bob. The first we see of Bob he is simplistic, his only form of communication - a slide whistle, but on further discovery we encounter the magniloquent Dr Robert Terwilliger, a self-proclaimed genius, graduate of Yale university, criminal mastermind, former Mayor of Springfield & Salsiccia, a champion of high culture with an intense love for musical theatre.
However, despite all his achievements & genius, he is still hampered by his gigantic feet, constantly outwitted by a ten year old boy & can never escape his most persistent nemesis, the common garden rake.
After seeing Ty's disturbing episode in Mandurah, I've been musing some plausible reasoning to this most recent bizarre act.
Commonly known to be the most genius of the current list of players at Tigerland, the most probable explanation is that he too suffers from this apparent defect that has afflicted those aforementioned intellectual greats.
This would then explain the reason it is, that included amongst his cameo performances of high standard, why we still see the regular on-field lapses of concentration & disinterest. In Vickery's mind however, he is actually still performing to the required high standard but in actuality he is only wandering the ground not contesting, not competing, not chasing and not getting the ball, whilst back in his mind he is chasing down tackles, taking screamers and bagging goals from the boundary. This apparent delusion manifesting itself in the first quarter at Mandurah for all to see.
