Back to baseball, etc. The Spicer poem that Pierre posted is an example of
a large genre, written and in film, of baseball as metaphysical drama.
Which is the way USians tend to experience the game. Is there a similar
literature of cricket, or does it always remain cricket?
Mark
At 05:21 AM 4/8/2005, you wrote:
> > Dear robin I meant are you sure that it is not still played with a severed
> > head!!!!
>
>I think they ran short of easily available dead vikings' heads a bit ago.
>
> > Blair's might be a bit too spongy? Spoungey? Float away??
>
>Yuck!!!
>
> > Bit worried about j smith (name of my partneress ozperson)
>
>John Smith (whose untimely death I think was possibly the worst thing that
>happened to the Labour Party in the last fifty years).
>
>Nemo
>
>(Hey, did you really play shinty in your long-ago youth? Makes you a braver
>person than me.)
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