'...Slogging away at the Aeneid: the race and the boxing match are extremely funny - athel, bugger it I will spell it right, athletes have evidently behaved all through the ages with the same mixture of exhibitionism, hysteria and unscrupulousness.'
Cecil Day-Lewis, in a letter to Jill Balcon, 1950, quoted in C. Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life by Sean Day-Lewis (Chapter 4)
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