081413 #worm Finally, they agreed on dry-roasted peanuts and a game of pool, at which, any reasonable outside observer would have been moved by their performance to pronounce, they sucked; but pool, like cards, is a game played on the surface of a swirling vortex of other games, at once quieter and more violent, wherein geometric acuity and the skillful manipulation of hard, colorful spheres is hardly paramount.