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

[Mark Kohut]

George Plimpton again on Ali, this time from *Shadow Box. *
with Marianne Moore.

http://suchstuff.blogspot.com/2005/10/matchup-marianne-moore-and-muhammad.html


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you've got the 1st edition of Reemtsma's book try to make sense of the
> last sentence on p. 147. If the 2nd you could look up if they amended it:
> it's the 1st of one of the last paragraphs in the chapter "Siege",
> beginning with: "Nicht nur, daß"
>
> Highbrow indeed: the epigraph of the chapter is from Euripides.
>
> 2016-06-06 9:39 GMT+02:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/ishmael-reed-gets-in-the-ring/
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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