RIP Muhammad Ali. More OED entrees than, well, Thomas Pynchon.

Mon Jun 6 02:39:19 CDT 2016

Although a little too highbrow, J.P. Reemtsma's "Mehr als ein Champion. 
Über den Stil des Boxers Muhammad Ali" is an acceptable read on Ali.

There is, as I just saw, a translation:

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/139898/more-than-a-champion-by-jan-philipp-reemtsma/9780375700057/ 

On 05.06.2016 15:12, ish mailian wrote:
> I recommended a few weeks back Ishmael's Reed's book, it seems more
> important now that the popular embrace of the stuttering and shaking
> old torch bearing Ali is being pasted to history with white glue.
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> http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/ishmael-reed-gets-in-the-ring/
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> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Mark Kohut<mark.kohut at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> He's in the @OED 21 times, including rumble; rope-a-dope; braggadocious; to
>> be unable to fight one's way out of a paper bag. #RIPMuhammadAli
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