A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick

Srijandeep Das

20th April 2018 | 11:19 PM

If the answer is ”the scissor kick”, the question of course is, ”What do Chilean strawberries, a Spanish Spy, the Aztecs and Peter Crouch have in common?”
A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick
Art by Debanjan Chowdhury.

Dear Chilena,

I found your name in an old book, Chilena. I am writing this for you.

You are vivacious-verbosity condensed into a swoop of movement. Some people can see sound — the condition is called synesthesia. They see colours and patterns morph from music. To see you for who you truly are, they must be able to follow the story of movement. This is a perspective Professor Joseph Campbell was prescient to when he wrote Dance and Mythology. Football is, when one thinks about it, a tributary of both.

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