I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.
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"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner", from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003) p. 24.Alan Sillitoe
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