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Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory…

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I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was…
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a…
Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport…
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...
Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound…
[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they…
Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of…
Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than…
For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had…
As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict…

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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a… — John Keats
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be… — Herman Melville
Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins
A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it. — Eileen Atkins
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy… — Amos Oz
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I… — Friedrich Schiller
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its… — Manohla Dargis
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig

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