Marshawn Lynch, man of letters
Several distinguished writers, including Jack London, Robert Penn Warren, Gary Snyder and Joan Didion, attended the University of California at Berkeley, and Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, was a Cal professor from 1961 until his death in 2004. Following in the university's great literary tradition is Buffalo Bills running back and former Golden Bear Marshawn Lynch, the latest of several athletes to blog for the website YardBarker.com.
It's evident that Marshawn Lynch is influenced by the lyrical, stream-of-consciousness style of Jack Kerouac, who wrote extensively about his adventures in the 1950s with literary figures from Marshawn Lynch's native Northern California. Marshawn Lynch also mimics the poet E.E. Cummings, who broke free from the strictures of capitalization, punctuation and traditional sentence structure. Here's a sampling from Marshawn Lynch's first blog entry:
"what it do its ya local neighborhood running back outta OAKLAND....in buffalo playin for da bills ... ive been out 4 da past two weeks and its been hurting me not to b out der wit ma teammates even if we losing....i just cant wait til i can get back out der wit ma bra bras (teammates)."
The average reader might not comprehend Marshawn Lynch's prose after just one reading, but that's also what they say about James Joyce, correct?
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