Boris Johnson

sports

occupation / innovator as

journalist

nationality

British

novelist

science fiction writer

is an enigma wrapped up in a whoopee cushion.

An enigma wrapped up in a whoopee cushion.

is a reflection of life. The more seriously it is taken by its participants, the more it becomes a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. Will Self

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