Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance (25 page)

There will be no funeral arrangements but he hopes you will open a celebratory bottle of wine, which he regrets he will not be able to share with you. Some laughter, please, to accompany his departure; no tears.

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First published in Great Britain between 1967–1974 in instalments by
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Copyright © Robert Crisp
‘The life of the most extraordinary man to play Test cricket'
© Guardian News & Media Ltd 2013
Extract taken from ‘Little Gidding' taken from
Four Quartets
© T.S. Eliot renewed 1970 Esme Valerie Eliot and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Wisden obituary © Wisden 1995, used by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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