Title: Faux Amis

Author: Andrew Johnston

In: Sport 23: Spring 1999

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1999

Part of: Sport

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Sport 23: Spring 1999

page 44

for Christine

‘My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation.’

Anne Carson, ‘On Walking Backwards’