he trained obsessively for a chance at the marathon down to the last lunge his body extending for that photo finish in a hundredth of a second though the marathon was considered a test of stamina endurance he thought nothing not even the slightest could be left to chance the whole of his life defined in a word a contest of speed a competition working towards a goal in his haste to train he neglected reading the definition in its entirety and as he had predicted it all came down to a photo finish declaring him the winner by one hundredth of a second in the process of examining this photo finish the judges discovered a hint of brown the color of his eyes serving as grounds for his disqualification in reviewing the rules the fine print stated that the race was limited to those having blues in reviewing the word he realized that his life thus far had been based on the right spelling of the wrong word