Re: NP – but Ali

[Mark Kohut]

No.

And your terseness leads one to simply guess that you wanted to identify it
but couldn't?

The Tao of Muhammad Ali
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https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0804151717
Davis Miller
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The pores on his face look huge, his features elongated, distorted, like
someone's in an El Greco. He rubs his ... talking. to. you. about. this.”
“No, no, go on,” he says. “It just bothers me,” I tell him. I'm thinking about
the obvious ironies, thinking about Ali continuing to invent, and be
invented by, his own mythology. About how he used to talk easier, maybe
better, than anybody in the world (has anyone in history so enjoyed the
sweet and spiky melodies of his own voice?). About how he ...

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anybody read the article with this paragraph:
>
> “It just bothers me,” I told him. I was thinking about the obvious
> ironies, thinking about Ali continuing to invent, and be invented by, his
> own mythology. About how he used to talk easier, maybe better, than anybody
> in the world (has anyone in history so enjoyed the sweet and spiky melodies
> of his own voice?); about how he sometimes still thought with speed and
> dazzle, but it took serious effort for him to communicate even with people
> close to him. About how he may have been the world’s best athlete—when
> walking, he used to move with the grace of a leopard turning a corner; now,
> at night, he stumbled around the house. About how it was his left hand, the
> same hand from which once slid that great Ali snake-lick of a jab—the most
> visible phenomenon of his boxing greatness—the very hand with which he won
> more than 150 sanctioned fights and countless sparring sessions, it’s *his
> left hand*, not his right, that shook almost continuously. And I was
> thinking how his major source of pride, his “prettiness,” remained more or
> less intact. If Ali lost 40 pounds, in the right kind of light he’d still
> look classically Greek. The seeming precision with which things have been
> excised from Ali’s life (as well as the gifts that have been left him) sort
> of spooked me.
> ?
>
>
>
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