Thursday, November 14, 2002

Am soooooooo frickin bored at work that i wrote a sonnet

Will publish here when I think it's good enough.

Book

Started reading King Of the World by David Remnick, about the rise of Muhammad Ali as an American Hero. It's great read. It's started off with the liberal's liberal boxer, Floyd Patterson, before his fight with the 'Bad Negro' Sonny Liston. Sonny was the Mike Tyson of the time, with a left jab like other boxers cross. He was also involved with the Mafia and an ex-con, done for armed robbery. Patterson was the 'Good Negro', one's that children don't have to be afraid of. It also has tales of Norman Mailer drinking all night at the Playboy Mansion and getting thrown out of the boxer's press conference the next morning.

Also read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Only took a week. Was very good, tight story and kept me guessing to the end. Less Dahl, which is what I missed. Parseltounge, I should have known.

Put Ulysess to one side. It's boring seven bells of shit out of me. It's the last thing i want to look at on a crowded tube in the morning.

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