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thinking ahead,observing his opponent, watching how slow the punch is:
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"All the answers that you came up with in the ring, you
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kept to yourself, and when you let the secret out,
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you let it out through everything but your mouth."
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For all Coleman's training in the English language from his father,
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his mode of revelation, his mode of communication, is not verbal.
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It is somehow physical, as a physical performance,
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as a damaging physical performance.
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That term "counter-confessional," being--the pleasure and the power
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were in--being counter-confessional in the same way you were
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a counter-puncher, in not telling--
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this is quite a remarkable term for Roth to use.