A Valediction of Late Life
Nearing the end of life, for artists, intellectuals, and politicians their last hurrah carries a very specific style.
The late Palestinian intellectual, Edward Said, was not a natural bedfellow for Arsene Wenger, the French football manager in the English Premier League. However, the very first match of the 2017-18 season — between Wenger’s team, Arsenal, and recent champions Leicester City — excited the football columnists to break out of their jadedness and attempt literary airs. Barney Ronay, writing in The Guardian, proposed that new recruit, Alexander Lacazette, despite scoring the opening goal, must have been bemused and confused by the “uncut hit of pure, unfiltered Arsenal-dom, the very essence of late Wengerism.”
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