In the previous post, Dominican letrado Goitia exclaimed that it was indeed possible to return to life after being thrown into the sea. In the specified contest between famed Dominican squads Gimnasio Escolar and Atlético, Goitia gloated how Atlético sent the “poor boys” of Gimnasio Escolar crazily spinning all over the field in futile pursuit of batted balls and frustratingly unable to stop the Atlético running game. Goitia openly admonished another Dominican letrado associated with Gimnasio Escolar, Orgen, personally. “Now you shut up, Orgen?” he wrote. He continued, suggesting that Orgen abandon his place in baseball and instead devote himself to his writing, and not to come back to the scene like a ricocheting baseball.
As it turns out, Orgen did ricochet and had a response for Goitia. Two weeks later, Orgen, continuing the favored metaphor of the sea, predicted that Gimnasio Escolar will make their "friend" Goitia surrender his soul to the creator in a deep sea. However, he clarifies that this is not the Caribbean--instead, Orgen declares that this sea is a deep sea of shame, longing, and tears.
Listin Diario (Santo Domingo) November 17, 1917.
The use of the sea as a metaphor recalls some scholarship I recently read on Mark's use of the Sea of Galilee as a literary device. I won't summarize too much of it in this space, but you can read it here. Notably, it appears that Mark drew upon Greek and Jewish sources to establish the role of the "sea" (much more a lake) of Galilee in presenting the Markan Jesus, with a priority on symbolism over geographical accuracy.
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