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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2006 14:25:14 GMT
On Tuesday night, one Matt Seaton (Rapha/Condor) featured (that is: lapped me many times). Does anyone know if he the same Matt Seeaton who wrote "The Escape Artist: Life from the Saddle "?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2006 14:40:26 GMT
Yup...the very same.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2006 15:21:28 GMT
and he has a weekly column in the Guardian
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2006 15:29:49 GMT
and he gave me half his winnings on Sunday, a bottle of cabernet. What a gent.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2006 17:42:10 GMT
The thing I noticed with the book is that the typography is set in a style that imitates traditional continental typesetting conventions, using em dashes to mark the beginning of speech, rather than quote markes that are used in Anglo-American texts. And the font used is Fournier, a design that is in the style of typefaces typically used in French printing.
I thought it was a deliberate, though subtle, allusion to the way some roadies like to wear foreign retro kit, presenting cycling (or a book about cycling in this case) as something slightly different to the norm: obscure, foreign, exotic.
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Post by Snack Van Open on May 15, 2006 12:47:37 GMT
matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk
Yes this is the same man, had lunch the other week talking about the "auld days" the chips n mayo were great
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Post by Forum Admin on May 17, 2006 20:43:48 GMT
Matt is a gentleman and a scholar and a fully-paid-up member of the Dulwich Paragon Cycling Club (2nd claim) ... !
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