Leisure and Culture: Rugby

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, while it was growing the industrial economy, emerged different kinds of Sport. One of them (maybe the most important) was the Rugby. On the one hand it showed us the new aristocracy from Oxford, Eton, etc. and on the other hand served as cultural event for many people and lifestyles all over the world. 

The picture above is a great example of this: The Roses Match (painted by William Barnes Wollen)

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If This is a Man

• You who live safe
• In your warm houses,
• You who find, returning in the evening,
• Hot food and friendly faces:
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• Consider if this is a man
• Who works in the mud,
• Who does not know peace,
• Who fights for a scrap of bread,
• Who dies because of a yes or a no.
• Consider if this is a woman
• Without hair and without name,
• With no more strength to remember,
• Her eyes empty and her womb cold
• Like a frog in winter.
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• Meditate that this came about:
• I commend these words to you.
• Carve them in your hearts
• At home, in the street,
• Going to bed, rising;
• Repeat them to your children.
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• Or may your house fall apart,
• May illness impede you,
• May your children turn their faces from you.

Primo Levi, 1947

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