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Quotation of the Day for December 21, 2011"Scholars and literary writers and even crusaders calling for the abolition of boxing wrap it in more layers: not just the conventions of show business and sport, but also social and artistic and and psychological significance. And they keep coming because there's always more work to do. It takes constant effort to keep the slippery, naked, near-formless fact of hitting swaddled in layers of sense and form. Because hitting wants to shake off all encumbering import and just be hitting, because boxing incompletely frames elemental chaos, the capacity of the fights to mean is rivaled by their incapacity to mean anything at all." - Carlo Rotella, in Cut time: an education at the fights. Submitted by: Terry Labach Dec. 20, 2011  |
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