“All I know most surely about morality and obligation I owe to football”,
My Notebook
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Eric Cantona, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2017
Any book by the originator of the phrase “When seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea” will not be convention. The book consists of over 100 pages (pages are not numbered) of sketches with a caption in English and French.
Examples include
When I grow up I will be a liar
A staircase to marriage
Faster than his shadow
The road is long
The woman who preferred trees to mushrooms
Faith is referred to a few times such as in the following:
and
According to the publisher’s press release, the drawings are in a “faux-naïve style” – so now you know! And according to the same press release "the drawings and musings are as funny as they are poetic and philosophical”.