---- Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Then you have missed a great deal for cricket is the game so
> significant that murkins literally invented Baseball to avoid playing
> it (source: Ken Burns) and as I've said before, it has a strange
> mixture of solemnity, courtesy, complexity and absolute bloody terror
> that can only be appreciated by the genuinely adult mind.
I would substitute "British-derived class conscious" for "adult," but that's
just me. <g> I'm sure you've read "Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill. If you
haven't you 1) should be ashamed of yourself; and 2) get it right away.
--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com
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