Posts Tagged Dickens
Best Piece of Sportswriting Ever?
I mentioned this passage from The Pickwick Papers not long ago in a post on The Far Corner as an example of the comedy that can arise when sports and language put pressure on one another. It’s about cricket, it was written in the mid-1830s, and it’s completely fictional, but I still think this [...]
“Andriy was dead: to begin with.”
Staring out a hotel window this morning onto a still-dark street—frail skirts of light clinging to the legs of the streetlamps; black-coated passers-by gliding along like ghosts from a dead commercial about the legroom in business class; every signpost sheathed in pine branches and with a floppy red bow around its neck, like someone’s country [...]
