As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Will SelfIt might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
Will SelfThere's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Will SelfI always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Will SelfYou can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
Will Self