The only news he wanted to hear was thatpeople had become a little sensible and decent and peace-ful; he disliked this Cup-Tie attitude, in which peopletook sides for the sake of excitement, and rooted fortheir team to win without any sense of responsibility.This passion for vicarious belligerence! Obviouslyneither of them really believed that anything unpleasantwould happen to them, and the bogey of being stoned bystrikers was only evoked for the sake of a little uncostlyexcitement.
-Richard Aldington
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