Alphabetarion # Impatience | Norman Mailer, 1975

“It is not uncommon for fighters’ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. The boredom creates an impatience with one’s life, and a violence to improve it.”

Norman Mailer, The Fight, 1975

The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.