Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several wars, resplendent in design, ornate in display, their forms following function, though in many ways defective, but was the advent and alpha of Tetherball, a game where two opposing players use their hands to strike a volleyball suspended from a stationary metal pole by a rope or tether, the players standing on opposite sides of the pole, in clearly delineated demarcated demilitarized zones, each trying to hit the ball one way, one clockwise and one counterclockwise, intuitively and counterintuitively, employing tactics and strategies derived from the espionage and counterespionage pages of the the gaming and spying handbook Manuel D’espionnage et de Jeu © by Rémy Desportes Belleau in 1699, a man of mystery, menace, and misc
