........ The moment in a fight when the punches slow down and the opponents watch each other like time-lapse photographs - the sweat frozen in mid air, the blood still spinning, the maniacal grins like the teeth themselves have gone bare-knuckle.
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.......... If you want to talk about recent financial ruin, stroll along Wall street and just listen to the brokers in their pin-stripe dressing gowns - their takedowns, their sucker punches, their catch-weights, their glass jaws, their haymakers, their throw-in of the towel on a friday afternoon.
Colum McCann
Foreword
The Hurt Business -
A Century of the Greatest Writing on Boxing
2013
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