ext_6369 ([identity profile] dichroic.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] pegkerr 2005-08-11 08:20 pm (UTC)

A former coworker of mine performed that one at Burns Night one year... wish I'd been there to hear it.

However, my favorite, being a rower, is "East of Agamemnon", and one of my all-time favorite quotes about rowing is in that book:

"Of all sports, rowing offers the least to outward seeming. It is hard work unleavened by variety. Worse, a man attending to business can’t see where he is going. The pleasure compensating for this madness is at once simple and subtle. A need of men, generally denied, them, is to feel a part of something which works smoothly and well. In a mated crew the ideal is reached, the feeling of perfection passing back and forth from the individual to the team like an electric current. Until exhaustion breaks the spell, there is no more to be desired."


Mostly I row in a single, these days, but that's the perfect description of a good crew, right there. It's like singing in a choir that's exactly on key.

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