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Hear me out :is, an unnamed colleague insists, “the loveliest bit of sports writing all year”. Huge call? Yes. Especially as it’s only June. But consider the ingredients: a small factory about an hour from Lord’s; “subtly different” stitching techniques passed down from parent to child; the glossy, cherry-red balls, no two made alike …
And most interestingly, a closely guarded formula for lacquer – created by the mysterious Walter, a Jewish man who “apparently survived Auschwitz” and escaped the Nazis to make his life in Derbyshire.’m going to tell you a secret I’ve never told anyone … I’ve got something no one else has, and they’d likely do all sorts to get their hands on it”Did you know the bit where the ball is held to a naked flame and covered in grease is called “lamping”? You do now.
“My work is not just my experience, but rather a questing forward from experience,” he says. And then offers something useful for anyone wanting to write: “I have a deep suspicion or, more accurately, an ambivalence to the myth of ‘style’. I believe the common anxiety for a writer to ‘find’ or ‘establish’ a style is actually incredibly limiting – and the longer I teach the more I find this to be true.
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