The End
2.
The oldest of them stepped forward and struck me on the chest with an open palm. Confident and aggressive.
‘We saw you walking up the beach,’ he said, smiling.
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Posted in The Duel with tags ants, bible, boaz, faith, naomi, Pike Bishop, Russel Hoban, ruth, scorpions, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on November 18, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
The Duel
Posted in The Duel with tags James Ellroy, Yukio Mishima on November 9, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
The End
1.
‘Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.’
– Yukio Mishima.
You imagine certain things when you see a beach like this.
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Posted in The Duel with tags Harvey Keitel, Indiana Jones, MONA, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Duellists, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on April 30, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
Conclusion
The truest indicator of a story’s legitimacy is ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ test:
‘He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years’ child:
The Mariner hath his will.’
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Posted in The Duel with tags Boxing, Teddy Atlas, The Duellists on April 26, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
Provocation
I had to challenge J- in such a way that didn’t amount to a threat. It’s entirely possible that he might even take a threat to the police in order to tie me up. I got his phone number from V- and texted him.
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Posted in The Duel with tags Armand d'Hubert, Cannes Film Festival 1977, Gabriel Feraud, Harvey Keitel, Joseph Conrad, Napoleon, Ridley Scott, The Duellists, The Wild Bunch on April 18, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
The Duellists
Writing about my intention to harm another person physically is wandering onto the wrong side of the law in a way that may forever be used against me. However, art is a more important consideration, and the more risky a piece of art, the better.
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Posted in The Duel with tags affray, assault, Bouncing, duel, lawyer, Mike Tyson, sexual assault, Tyson on April 7, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
The Wait
“I was so scared on my first amateur fight, I wanted to… I went downstairs, ‘I’m going to the store in the Bronx, New York, I’m going to the store…’ and I went downstairs. Man, I should get on this train and never come back, I wanted to get on the train and just leave, I was so scared. I didn’t want to fight anybody.”
Mike Tyson,
Tyson.
I once had an argument with a guy I used to bounce with.
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Posted in The Duel with tags Boxing, bullying, emasculation, Fighting, Robert McKee, school, Story on March 22, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
The Driving Force of a Crucially Diminished Intellect
Psychological injury is different to physical injury. It’s something that settles over a period of time, as whatever has occurred continues to resonate inside you. Caroming off your thoughts and feelings; creating persistent resonances that shape the thoughts and feelings that follow.
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Posted in The Duel with tags Chapel Street, High school, Rebel Sport on March 5, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
Haunted By the Ghosts of High School Past
A friend of mine once said, ‘You can earn a billion dollars and discover a cure for cancer, but when you go back to a school reunion, you’re reduced to being the same little dickhead everybody thought you were when you were fifteen.’
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Posted in The Duel with tags ABC Radio National, AFL, high school dance, leopard skin tuxedo, The Head on February 22, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
V was a year behind me in high school. She was one of the most attractive girls I knew, and I was on the inside track because she was a friend of my sister. When I asked, she was kind enough to accept my invitation to the high school dance. V- was a lot less than impressed, however, when I arrived at her house to collect her wearing a leopard-skin tuxedo.
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Posted in The Duel with tags Jonathan Hobbes, Krishnamurti, Marcus Aurelius, meditations, Patricio Manuel, Philosophy, Sam Peckinpah, stoicism, The Wild Bunch, Yuval Noah Harari on February 5, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle
I re-watched Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch recently. Like all ‘great’ works of art, you see different things every time you look at it, and it gives the appearance of changing as you do. In part, the film is concerned with ageing.
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Theme Park at its Darkest 