"I am close to believing the the most beautiful thing I ever saw. And here we have the imitation close to the original, close to its meaning, near enough to be a symbol. No clutter of useless details; the thing itself, clean and sharp. A boxing match, to some of the other games, is like a to a print, a to some turgid ."
— Boxing

January 1, 1970

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, as quoted in "Sports and Athletics: The Most Beautiful Sport" — Comment: Regarding his reference to "the imitation [being] close to the original," Hopper's premise, as regards both boxing and football, is that "any game, or sport, is an imitation, and the refinement, on some original human activity," the respective prototypes being, in this instance, a duel to the death and war itself.