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Originally Posted by JCF
and then (according to another thread ) - Proust
But we know that is nonsense - I am reading not Proust but the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace.
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Bah - go Hemingway. He's easier to read, but harder to understand. AND he drank like a fish, fished like a drunk, chased women, and smoked cigars.
He supposedly said: "There are but three true sports--bullfighting, mountain climbing, and motor-racing. The rest are merely games."