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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Proud
Substitutes
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Base
Beautiful
Highly
Stylized
Made
Greed
Chivalry
Chess
Mixture
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Mixtures
Flesh
Medieval
Baseball
Cricket

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