Tottenham's Young Albert - Taylor, John
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A man covered in bunker oil, lay prostrate on a raft clinging for life in the restless sea. His recognised strength and will power draining hourly from his embattled body. He had watched as fellow POWs, who had survived the barbarism of the Burma railway, slip away, some in apologetic silence, some swimming to the faces of their loved ones. His own hallucinations returned him to his childhood in Tredegar, where he had saved a young girl from drowning. They took him to a football stadium in White Hart Lane and the sound of the fans roaring, 'Come on you Lilywhites.' He imagined a teammate…mehr

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A man covered in bunker oil, lay prostrate on a raft clinging for life in the restless sea. His recognised strength and will power draining hourly from his embattled body. He had watched as fellow POWs, who had survived the barbarism of the Burma railway, slip away, some in apologetic silence, some swimming to the faces of their loved ones. His own hallucinations returned him to his childhood in Tredegar, where he had saved a young girl from drowning. They took him to a football stadium in White Hart Lane and the sound of the fans roaring, 'Come on you Lilywhites.' He imagined a teammate calling for a pass but it was a fellow sufferer pleading, 'Over here mate, over here.' He felt a strong hand grasp his arm, 'Hang on Buddy, you are safe now.' Young Albert the free scoring Tottenham forward looked into the bright eyes of a young American sailor. All pain left him and he wept with no tears.
Autorenporträt
John Taylor (b. 1952) is an American writer, critic, and translator who has long lived in France. As a polyglot translator and literary critic, he is one of the main bridges between contemporary European literature and English-speaking countries. His essays on European poets have been collected in his books Into the Heart of European Poetry (2008) and A Little Tour through European Poetry (2015). Among his many translations of French, Italian, and Modern Greek literature are, most recently, books by Philippe Jaccottet, José-Flore Tappy, Franca Mancinelli, Alfredo de Palchi, and Elias Papadimitrakopoulos. For over three decades Taylor has contributed regularly to the Times Literary Supplement and the Antioch Review. He is the author of eleven volumes of short prose and poetry. His latest books are Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees and a "double book" co-authored with the Swiss poet Pierre Chappuis, A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges.