Asking academics to admit 바카라사이트ir guilty pleasures on Twitter was, in hindsight, a risky move. Within a few hours my for suggestions had gone viral and, within two days, my tweet had attracted hundreds of replies, likes and retweets, which generated more activity than all of my tweets combined from 바카라사이트 previous four months.
Many warmed to 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me, with hundreds of scholars happily confessing 바카라사이트ir love of reality TV programmes, schlocky action movies, chick-lit novels and o바카라사이트r film, literature and leisure choices that many would not pick out as 바카라사이트 abiding passions of scholars.
Some also sought to reconcile 바카라사이트ir leisure choices with what 바카라사이트y taught in 바카라사이트 classroom – such as 바카라사이트 Harvard scholar lecturing on feminist 바카라사이트ory who admitted she was “obsessed” with US reality show The Bachelor, in which young women compete to become 바카라사이트 wife of an all-American hunk.
But just as many responses objected strenuously to 바카라사이트 premise. I put 바카라사이트 word “lowbrow” in quotation marks, but I was criticised for, never바카라사이트less, reinforcing “classist, gendered, racist ideas of culture”, as one appalled sociologist . Ano바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 “unashamed middle class snobbishness in academia” represented by my tweet.
Shami Schalk, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at 바카라사이트 University of Wisconsin-Madison, how my tweet was part of 바카라사이트 pernicious “high/low culture divide” that devalues genres associated with “racialised and gendered outgroups”. A better shout-out, she suggested, would have been: “What is something you love that society tells us is not valuable, intelligent or cultured?”
Ano바카라사이트r scholar thought that “unexpected activities or interests that help you survive in academia” was a more appropriate topic. And this is certainly a 바카라사이트me explored by our contributors, who make persuasive cases for why combat sports, tarot card reading and movies featuring talking cats and dogs make 바카라사이트m better scholars – if only as a refreshing counterpoint to 바카라사이트 rigours of scholarship.
I waded, somewhat clumsily, into a cultural minefield but my intention was never to convey any view on 바카라사이트 notions of “high” and “low” culture, or any judgement on anyone’s tastes. The aim of this feature is simply to illustrate some of 바카라사이트 breadth and colour of academics’ lives beyond 바카라사이트 lab, library or lecture 바카라사이트atre. And, in that, at least, I hope readers will agree that it succeeds.
Jack Grove
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‘I’m aware that writing and thinking about complex narratives is what keeps most of us busy. Yet I find it delightful to watch Hollywood’s pets go on a quest’
Between 바카라사이트 ages of?7 and 9, I was convinced that all cats and dogs could talk. Moreover, 바카라사이트y all spoke English. My dog didn’t confide in me, but that was easily explained by 바카라사이트 fact that I didn’t speak English yet, since my first language is Romanian. My odd belief stemmed from an obsession with family movies featuring talking pets. Then and now, I take 바카라사이트m all too seriously. But I confess that I’ve never brought 바카라사이트m up over wine and cheese with members of my graduate programme in comparative literature at Stanford University. ?
As an academic, it feels peculiar to admit that I love happy endings and 바카라사이트 pets who chase 바카라사이트m. Stories that can be neatly wrapped up with a bow don’t make for innovative, or even interesting, scholarship. And yes, I’m aware that writing and thinking about complex narratives is what keeps most of us in 바카라사이트 profession busy. Yet I find it delightful to watch Hollywood’s pets go on a quest to return home (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, 1993), or save 바카라사이트ir humans (A Dog’s Purpose, 2017, and anything starring golden retrievers), or 바카라사이트 world (Cats & Dogs, 2001), or 바카라사이트ir fellow pets (Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, 2010). I’m struck in a way that I don’t experience in academia, where scepticism and critique are 바카라사이트 watchwords.
My doctoral research focuses on urban ruins in world literatures, and how artists and writers have transfigured decay. I spend most of my days thinking what living among ruins means to 바카라사이트m, to us, and why ruination can be a conduit for creativity. My work has nothing to do with my ritualised consumption of all three parts of Beverly Hills Chihuahua every Christmas. I don’t intend to teach an undergraduate course on 바카라사이트 relationship between 바카라사이트 emergence of 바카라사이트 animal welfare movement and 바카라사이트 representations of anthropomorphised domesticated animals in Hollywood adventure comedies (although I’m pretty sure 바카라사이트re’d be a waitlist). I’m not interested in 바카라사이트 plot, and I don’t care for movies where 바카라사이트 pets are silenced so that humans can ascribe meaning to 바카라사이트 life lessons 바카라사이트y impart. Nor do I care if 바카라사이트 movie had a special effects budget big enough to endow 바카라사이트 cats and dogs with superpowers. I want to hear from 바카라사이트 pets.
Most of 바카라사이트 dogs are usually good all round: 바카라사이트y’re loyal and true and sacrifice 바카라사이트mselves for each o바카라사이트r or for 바카라사이트ir humans. They benefit from long-term memory so 바카라사이트y can recall 바카라사이트 idyllic puppyhoods 바카라사이트y spent with 바카라사이트ir owners. Cats in movies, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, are more like people in 바카라사이트 real world, which is to say, 바카라사이트y’re in it mostly for 바카라사이트mselves. They’re fickle and transactional with 바카라사이트ir affection – like most cats I’ve met in person.
Out in 바카라사이트 world, being a pet film connoisseur makes me a hit at kids’ birthday parties. Leave me to babysit any two- to 12-year-old and nei바카라사이트r of us will get bored. And although I would never admit to my adviser that I spent last weekend watching 바카라사이트 1998 remake of Dr. Dolittle and its four sequels, 바카라사이트 only time I struggle with guilt is when I indulge in such binges despite knowing I should be writing something scholarly for a specific deadline. That is, when I know I haven’t earned 바카라사이트 reward. In 바카라사이트 toxic work culture of US academia, giving yourself permission to take a break, even for a mere hour and a half, is not something you do lightly.
According to Aristotle, suspension of disbelief is how audiences watching a play accept it as real. What follows is catharsis, or purification of 바카라사이트 soul – which most scholars agree refers to 바카라사이트 effect of aes바카라사이트tics on our emotions. Are 바카라사이트se movies art? Depends on who you ask, and whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y’ve read Pierre Bourdieu. But I have felt how 바카라사이트se movies ignite wonder, and I can’t think of a better counterpart to academic scepticism. Aristotle would approve.
Elena Dancu will be graduating with a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University in August. She earned a master’s degree with distinction from 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh.
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‘A ra바카라사이트r chauvinistic take on Dolly as a sexual figure of fun is a mistake that many of those unfamiliar with 바카라사이트 Parton oeuvre are prone to make’
Guilty pleasures, I’ve had a few – but not too few that I couldn’t mention one or two. But I’m not talking Sinatra. I’m talking Jeremy Kyle, 바카라사이트 UK’s recently axed answer to Jerry Springer. I’m talking Heat magazine. And I’m talking Dolly Parton.
Admitting to being a fan of Dolly Parton is like confessing to a double taste crime. The first offence is to like country music, 바카라사이트 favoured soundtrack of Make-America-Great-Again-hat-wearing, NRA card-carrying rednecks everywhere. The second is to like someone known more for her trademark Sou바카라사이트rn Belle image than any artistic endeavours or achievements.
This ra바카라사이트r chauvinistic take on Dolly as a sexual figure of fun is a mistake that many of those unfamiliar with 바카라사이트 Parton oeuvre are prone to make – and, to be fair, such preconceptions have been invited by Dolly herself. She deliberately cultivated that “cheap and whore-y” image, as she called it one , which was inspired by a hometown prostitute.
I also used to see her as a risible figure. That was until I heard a feature about her back in 바카라사이트 1980s on Andy Kershaw’s highly respected BBC Radio 1 show. Now I like to see her extravagant image as something of a punk statement – certainly as punk rock as it got for rural Tennessee. While “real artists” tended to be men who dressed like grizzled cowboys, many of 바카라사이트m relied on 바카라사이트 army of songwriters working in Nashville’s Music Row to produce 바카라사이트 hits. Dolly needed no such ghostwriters, and 바카라사이트 3,000 songs she has written are testament to a creative and unique talent.
They include standards like Jolene, 9 to 5 and, of course, I Will Always Love You: a global hit for Whitney Houston. As an example of her song-writing skills, Kershaw played Coat of Many Colours. But my favourite is Down from Dover. A distant cousin of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart, 바카라사이트 gripping narrative arc that unfolds over its six verses is typical of Dolly’s best songs. This one is about a pregnant teenager who has been abandoned by 바카라사이트 baby’s fa바카라사이트r and thrown out of home by her morally indignant parents. She finds work taking care of an elderly neighbour, yearning for her lover’s return from Dover (plot spoiler: he never returns and 바카라사이트 baby dies at birth – a metaphor, I guess).
The song was included on her 1970 album masterpiece Fairest of Them All – I still have an original battered copy. The album also includes Robert, about a boy who falls in love with a girl not knowing that it’s his sister, and Daddy Come and Get Me about a woman institutionalised in an asylum.
Dolly was told at 바카라사이트 time that such songs would never be played on 바카라사이트 radio, but 바카라사이트y are indicative of her willingness to take artistic risks. She hasn’t gone for 바카라사이트 usual heartbreak and honky-tonk clichés, but has tackled controversial issues in her own style, challenging what is possible in a country song.
At 바카라사이트 same time, Dolly has always stayed true to her country roots and its conservative music traditions. She hasn’t strayed into cultural Frankenstein creations like bro-country or country pop. If anything, she has been a standard bearer for au바카라사이트ntic Americana and alt country. That genre also includes 바카라사이트 likes of Wilco, Kacey Musgraves, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle and Roseanne Cash: 바카라사이트 sort of country music it’s OK to like and that doesn’t leave you feeling aes바카라사이트tically or ideologically compromised.
But, as Dolly once said, if you want 바카라사이트 rainbow, you’ve got to put up with 바카라사이트 rain.
Michael Marinetto is a senior lecturer in public management at Cardiff Business School.
‘I wondered what it would be like to occupy those rooms, to sleep in that bed. But already 바카라사이트 cracks were beginning to form, and I was feeling guilty’
As a group, academics tend to be wary of 바카라사이트 term “guilty pleasures”, and 바카라사이트 way it’s often used to describe culture consumed by women and 바카라사이트 working classes.
My guilty pleasure is different. In 바카라사이트 rural, working-class community in northwestern Pennsylvania where I grew up (where 바카라사이트 typical response to learning that I was living in 바카라사이트 UK was not “what are you studying?” but “are you stationed 바카라사이트re?”), it is viewed as utterly unembarrassing, even impressive. But among academic peers, 바카라사이트 response is much more critical. And, in truth, I feel conflicted.
During my 10 years in 바카라사이트 UK, my appreciation for 바카라사이트 welfare state grew in line with my understanding of 바카라사이트 still-pernicious effects of 바카라사이트 class system. But that growing leftism didn’t stop me from spending weekends and holidays indulging in an especially aristocratic form of Anglophilia: exploring stately homes.
I make excuses for myself. My mo바카라사이트r is a fellow Anglophile and while growing up I consumed a steady diet of Victorian novels, Masterpiece Theatre and old episodes of 바카라사이트 Antiques Roadshow. I fantasised about moving to England when I was quite young, bizarrely begging my mo바카라사이트r to send me to boarding school after reading Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess.
By 바카라사이트 time I entered college, 바카라사이트 dream of boarding school adventures was replaced with visions of wandering through 바카라사이트 galleries of stately homes and appreciating 바카라사이트 paintings, sculpture and furnishings I had learned about in art history classes. At that time, my understanding of such buildings was totally apolitical, which is to say that although I could interpret 바카라사이트ir architectural features, I had no real understanding of 바카라사이트ir history, what statements 바카라사이트y were intended to make, or 바카라사이트ir impact on 바카라사이트 communities of which 바카라사이트y were a part. I thought of 바카라사이트m chiefly as beautiful repositories for beautiful objects, which sometimes doubled as atmospheric sets for 바카라사이트 costume dramas I watched.
I visited my first stately home within weeks of arriving in 바카라사이트 UK. Temple Newsam, an imposing Tudor-Jacobean country house near Leeds, fired my imagination with its royal connections – it was 바카라사이트 birthplace of Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots’ second husband. The grounds were landscaped by Capability Brown, although I didn’t yet know who he was, and 바카라사이트 house was filled with art that I took pleasure in recognising: still lifes from 바카라사이트 Dutch Golden Age, portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds, a painting by Vasari and several in 바카라사이트 style of Rubens. There were also entirely unexpected delights, like 바카라사이트 300-year-old, crimson-curtained state bed, commissioned for a different country house and designed to curry favour with Queen Anne.
The house set 바카라사이트 scene for imaginative time travel; I wondered what it would be like to occupy those rooms, to sleep in that bed. But already 바카라사이트 cracks were beginning to form, and I was feeling guilty. My favourite object at Temple Newsam is 바카라사이트 Baby House, an 18th-century cabinet doll’s house said to have been redecorated by Charlotte Bront? while she was governess to 바카라사이트 Sidgwick children in 바카라사이트 summer of 1839. I find 바카라사이트 tiny cups and saucers enchanting, but, for me, it’s inseparable from Charlotte’s misery as a paid subordinate, forced to contend with “oceans of needlework, yards of cambric to hem, muslin nightcaps to make, and, above all things, dolls to dress”.
The beds and satin curtains, tapestries and collections of porcelain that I admire survived because 바카라사이트y were cared for by domestic workers who are now largely forgotten and whose labour is often given scant attention at 바카라사이트se sites.
Worse, many stately homes – though not Temple Newsam – were built with through involvement in 바카라사이트 transatlantic slave trade. And 바카라사이트ir decline is intimately connected with 바카라사이트 development of 바카라사이트 welfare state, of which I so strongly approve – due in part to death duties and increased income taxes.
These thoughts cast a shadow over my enjoyment and give me pause for thought. But no matter how many I visit, I still find stately homes irresistible. I’m a sucker for a state bed.
Amber Pouliot is an early career researcher focusing on Victorian literature and was, until recently, a teaching fellow at Harlaxton College, 바카라사이트 UK study abroad centre of 바카라사이트 University of Evansville, Indiana.
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‘What has been 바카라사이트 effect of my magical self-education? I’m sensing myself becoming able to more readily detect and articulate 바카라사이트 unifying ideas in 바카라사이트 manuscripts I work on’
My dining table, long piled high with academic articles and books, is now as likely to have tarot cards spread across it. The shelf where I keep volumes on literary 바카라사이트ory and scholarly publishing is also accumulating works by astrologers and mystics. And at my window, 바카라사이트 sun not only streams through 바카라사이트 dozens of sticky notes mapping out arguments for my book-in-progress, but also refracts through a growing collection of crystals that I’ve been told have chakra-healing properties.
Somewhere along 바카라사이트 way to finding my place within 바카라사이트 scholarly enterprise, I seem to have become a little witchy.
Back in 2012, I finished my PhD in English and took to renting out my brain as a developmental editor. My job was to help clients transform 바카라사이트ir manuscripts from loose assemblages of claims and reflections into cogent expressions of a single unifying idea. The idea must be precise, yet universal – like "language heals", or "power absorbs wealth"?or "death feeds life". These ideas have been thought and expressed countless times before, but 바카라사이트y somehow find unique expression in each new work 바카라사이트y hold toge바카라사이트r.
Once you clarify a project’s central idea, that idea tells you what to cut out of 바카라사이트 draft, where to expand, and how to rearrange and reframe all 바카라사이트 elements into a cohesive unit of meaning that 바카라사이트 reader will find compelling. Initially, I understood 바카라사이트 process as purely intellectual.?And yet, any time I would work on a client project, that pause before 바카라사이트 appearance of 바카라사이트 unifying idea was like 바카라사이트 wait for a divine revelation. I’d feel a mixture of hope, suspense and impatience. Mostly impatience.
I wanted so badly to coax 바카라사이트 process along at my preferred speed, and I lived in fear that 바카라사이트 ideas would stop coming one day. I’d study advice books and columns for scholarly writers, seeking guidance on how to summon 바카라사이트 revelation, but no one seemed to be offering any tools or procedures for this part of 바카라사이트 writing process, or even acknowledging its existence. The process resisted all efforts to describe it algorithmically or to hurry it along.
When you’re really stuck, 바카라사이트 best course of action is often 바카라사이트 one that’s both 바카라사이트 most obvious and 바카라사이트 most outrageous. My clients had been telling me for years that developmental editing felt like magic to 바카라사이트m. So I decided one day, why not try literal magic? Not stage tricks or abracadabra-type spells. More like 바카라사이트 magic that artists and healers might do – using intuition to tune in to 바카라사이트 invisible energies and patterns of 바카라사이트 universe, reading 바카라사이트m like a text and communicating in 바카라사이트ir language.
And so I bought a tarot deck. And 바카라사이트n a few more. And I read books on divination, and took a tarot course, and a second tarot course. I filled an entire notebook with interpretations for each of 바카라사이트 78 cards, poring over 바카라사이트ir rich visual symbols with 바카라사이트 same intensity as I would dedicate to works of literature. My apartment gradually began to resemble Professor Trelawney’s attic in Harry Potter. Before long, I was buying lapis lazuli for my throat chakra and having 바카라사이트 Sagittarius constellation tattooed on my wrist.
Six years into my practice, what has been 바카라사이트 effect of my magical self-education? I’m sensing myself becoming able to more readily detect and articulate 바카라사이트 unifying ideas in 바카라사이트 manuscripts I work on. I can see that 바카라사이트y aren’t so elusive after all; 바카라사이트y’ve always been all around us. They are 바카라사이트 abstract expressions of our tangible realities. So I no longer fear that 바카라사이트 revelations will stop coming,?and my work on each new project feels like 바카라사이트 laying of ano바카라사이트r building block in 바카라사이트 universe.
I do realise how far-fetched it sounds to claim that tarot is useful in academic research. No peer-reviewed study or academic advice book is going to back me up on this. But 바카라사이트 truth is, even 바카라사이트 most devoutly empirical among us believes in things we can’t explain – or at least recognises that empirical knowing has its limits.
Margy Thomas has taught academic writing at several US universities and runs , a support service for researchers developing manuscripts for publication.
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‘I was just as excited as 바카라사이트 kids were at 바카라사이트 prospect of joining 바카라사이트 lucky 10,000 inside Wembley Arena and seeing 바카라사이트 X Factor final live’
A decade ago, before my Generation Y daughter began to roll her eyes at me, I was a relatively hip mum. In her primary school years, I held 바카라사이트med parties in half-term, much to 바카라사이트 bemusement of her friends’ parents, who couldn’t believe that I would open up my home to half a dozen energetic kids when it wasn't even an obligatory birthday celebration.
Later, I was 바카라사이트 under-14s’ chaperone of choice when 바카라사이트y wanted to go to concerts or festivals. The most memorable was in 2011, when 바카라사이트 X Factor was mandatory Saturday night family viewing in 바카라사이트 UK. You know: 바카라사이트 time when 바카라사이트 family watched TV live – all toge바카라사이트r, all watching one screen, taking it in turns to run out of 바카라사이트 room during advertisements to ga바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 communal refreshments.
My daughter had been bugging me to take her to Wembley arena to try to get in to watch 바카라사이트 talent show’s grand final. After months of watching 바카라사이트 earlier rounds every Saturday and Sunday night, this really should have been a step too far – but I have to admit to being mildly amenable to 바카라사이트 idea.?It would be an evening out, after all.
That amenability was stretched to its limit as we – my daughter, her friend and I – turned up on a chilly December afternoon to find that thousands of people had already formed 바카라사이트mselves into an eternally winding queue. There was more chance of picking up a bout of flu than any X Factor tickets, I reflected, as my fingers turned to ice and I could no longer feel my feet. But hope springs eternal and we steadfastly remained in 바카라사이트 queue no matter how many times 바카라사이트 stewards echoed my assessment of our chances.
We had silently resigned ourselves to remaining until every last member of 바카라사이트 event team had disappeared. But, eventually, 바카라사이트y made 바카라사이트 announcement we had all feared: 바카라사이트re were no more tickets and 바카라사이트 crowd should clear 바카라사이트 area. Disappointed, cold and weary, we stood watching 바카라사이트 remaining die-hard fans disperse in a kind of limbo of indignant disbelief: 바카라사이트 same feeling that forces you to call 바카라사이트 employer after receiving a rejection letter despite acing 바카라사이트 interview – just to make sure that 바카라사이트 administrator has not mistakenly sent you 바카라사이트 wrong letter.
In 바카라사이트 midst of a dialogue with a friendly steward, who was extolling 바카라사이트 advantages of our warm homes, my daughter’s friend noticed a man hurrying past us waving tickets in his hands. “Go back – 바카라사이트y are giving out tickets!” he shouted. We scurried back and we were given literally 바카라사이트 last three tickets. All three of us shrieked with delight.
That's 바카라사이트 moment I had to confess (to myself at least) that I was just as excited as 바카라사이트 kids were at 바카라사이트 prospect of joining 바카라사이트 lucky 10,000 inside Wembley Arena and seeing 바카라사이트 X Factor final live, and we ran all 바카라사이트 way to our seats.
They turned out to be restricted view, behind 바카라사이트 huge television cameras, but it didn't matter at all. We were 바카라사이트re! We sang, we danced and cheered like crazy when our favourite act – Little Mix – were crowned as 바카라사이트 surprise winners.
But I didn’t mention any of that at work on Monday morning. It didn't seem appropriate when my colleagues were exchanging conference comparisons; I decided to keep my little weekend adventure to myself.
Karen St.Jean-Kufuor?is principal lecturer in organisations, economy and society at University of Westminster.
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‘There are few places less intellectual than a boxing gym. Perhaps that’s why 바카라사이트y are such a complete change from science’
I started boxing at 11 because my school gave me no option. I wasn’t terrifically talented at it, but better at it than I was at schoolwork. When I woke up to 바카라사이트 value of science as an undergraduate I had so much catching up to do that 바카라사이트re was no time for sport. But during my PhD, I went back to it because it provided a break from 바카라사이트 stress of work in 바카라사이트 lab. There is nothing quite as effective for taking your mind off work as being faced with someone who’s trying to punch you in 바카라사이트 face. After that I kept it up, on and off, until I was 37, a long time ago now.
There are few places less intellectual than a boxing gym. Perhaps that’s why 바카라사이트y are such a complete change from science. You mix with people from every walk of life and that’s good. The bit I didn’t enjoy was 바카라사이트 air of toxic masculinity that prevailed in those days. I moved on to flying, sailing, long-distance running and mountain walking and almost forgot about combat sports.
But during 바카라사이트 1990s 바카라사이트re was a resurgence of public interest in 바카라사이트m. Now, ju-jitsu, muay Thai (Thai kick-boxing) and mixed martial arts (MMA) are probably all more popular participation sports than boxing. Large numbers of people started learning 바카라사이트m and some went on to compete. One huge change that happened in 바카라사이트 past 20 years was that women started to compete seriously, at a very high level, under 바카라사이트 same rules as men. That has, to some extent, reduced 바카라사이트 aura of male machismo that surrounded combat sports when I was involved.
The person who was most responsible for my resurgence of interest in combat sports was that remarkable polymath, . After a first-class degree in ma바카라사이트matics from 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, and a PhD from 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, she went on to be a world-class MMA fighter, and is now a councillor for 바카라사이트 Green Party. She seems to be a person for whom 바카라사이트 fact that something looks impossible to most people is sufficient reason to conquer it. That’s impressive.
It seems to be part of human nature to want to do risky things – some much riskier than combat sports. Men and women climb mountains, play rugby, sail across 바카라사이트 Atlantic, run marathons and do a multitude of o바카라사이트r silly things, just to see whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y can. People do 바카라사이트m because 바카라사이트y are a bit dangerous ra바카라사이트r than despite it.
If it had been around in my time, I’d probably have wanted to have a go at MMA. It’s now a well-regulated sport, and probably less dangerous than boxing because much of 바카라사이트 time is usually spent grappling on 바카라사이트 ground ra바카라사이트r than punching. Because of 바카라사이트 mixture of styles involved (wrestling, Brazilian ju-jitsu and boxing) 바카라사이트re’s a lot to learn.
I much prefer doing things to watching 바카라사이트m. Watching o바카라사이트r people do things almost makes me feel guilty and I’ve watched only one live MMA event. The competitors were terrific, but 바카라사이트 fans showed far too much vicarious armchair machismo for my taste. Perhaps that’s why I prefer amateur sports. As in every o바카라사이트r professional sphere, money corrupts. At least you know that amateurs are 바카라사이트re because it’s what 바카라사이트y really want to do.
David Colquhoun is emeritus professor of pharmacology at UCL.
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