How To Start a Fight - Paul Cumming
$7.00
Non-fiction, 40 pages.
ISBN 9780994225122
Shadowboxing is the art of fighting yourself—where the fighter is free to imagine an opponent every bit as clustered, disjointed and predictable as they are. But I can’t quite manage this. I’ve spent too long studying fighters, steeped in the stories of their delicate strategy, their agility, their mulish will and raw pugilism, to imagine fighting any opponent as bad as myself.
So I just try to keep up, flaying and twisting myself in circular motion around an empty ring until the clock screeches 2:55 and my phantom adversary dissolves once again.
An illustrated long-form essay about the fiction and fact of boxing from Paul Cumming (Wax Volcanic).