Re: Football term[s]


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Posted by andyb on May 08, 2007 at 20:25:16 from 213.122.5.18 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: Football term[s] posted by Robert Hill on May 08, 2007 at 18:12:57:

John’s talk of making the XV jars with me. I don’t think anywhere else in the canon anyone shows the slightest interest in ballgames. As a kid I was glad of this, seeing the bespectacled AR as an ally of those of us who were no good at the games valued by school but quietly competent at sailing, climbing etc, or so I liked to think.
I wonder if AR uses this speech to try and make John a little bit less like his alter ego and a little more like a ‘normal boy’. I also wonder if AR decided when writing WH that it was time to rebrand his oeuvre, to move away from the Altounyans, Ransomes and Collingwoods and give his characters a life of their own, hence the introduction of the Ds. Does anyone know offhand when AR revoked the “To the six” dedication, was this before or after WH?




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