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Saturday 1 September 2012

Genius


The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst.

From PaulR

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

You can't fool me. Joe Theisman ("The is-man"; emblematic of existence itself, defined by the definite article, yet simultaneously an "ordinary Joe") is obviously another Calvino character.

A K Haart said...

Sam - he may be, but I'm not sure if Calvino could ever have dreamed up "Norman Einstein".