Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
John FowlesTo write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
John FowlesHis statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."
John Fowles