The Bronze Medal

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Think how much Byron would have loved the dunk, as a kind of sped-up sunset, as a metaphor for what he did to ladies! Or like Donne wouldn’t have written a dunk poem. He would totally have written a death sonnet about the dunk and called it, “The Sickest Dunk Can Never Die.” Shakespeare I guess would have dunked from half-court, taking steps three at a time in the air, and everyone else would have gotten pissed and gone home.

— Patricia Lockwood, on the slam dunk.

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