[lit-ideas] Re: Panic Attack Rant with Crickets

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:33:13 -0700

Judy wrote:

Cricket is about lying in the long grass at the pitch's edge,
loafing
around in the pavilion, and drinking beer.  Great game

That's as may be. But on that day it would have been—how shall I put it?—too bloody cold and damp to lie about in grass of any length. Better the Turl than the pitch's edge. (Any game is a great game if you can lie about in the grass and drink beer while it's in progress.)

Robert Paul

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