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| Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own. Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. |
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