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‘The ceremonial ringing—a summoning to full wakefulness—It sets into motion—the authority of Time—& everything—exposed—including things about themselves they cannot fully realise—we're humanly responsible not only for our own acts but for those performed against us—Time, like the possibility of death, is the invisible adversary—I've no difficulty justifying boxing as—sport because I've never thought of it as a sport’
— Mar 23, 2026 01:28PM
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emily
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‘To write about boxing is to write about oneself—however elliptically—unintentionally. & to write about boxing is to be forced to contemplate—the perimeters of civilisation—what it is, or should be, to be human—Perhaps boxing has always been in crisis, a sport of crisis—I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.’
— Mar 21, 2026 06:05PM
