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Jenny Odell · 18 Dec 2025

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  1. Our reading

    The process of training in athletics shares many similarities with the process of writing a book.

    Their wordsThanks to my trainer, when I finally went off to the gym by myself, my workouts continued to be object lessons in a kindly self-awareness and the slow but sure nature of training that, on an everyday level, shares so much with the process of writing a book.

  2. Our reading

    Writing and athletics are often viewed as a false dichotomy.

    Their wordsAnd if we were to dissolve the false dichotomy of art and sports, what would it allow us to see?

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