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http://www.repubblica.it/2008/09/sezioni/persone/david-foster-wallace/david-foster-wallace/david-foster-wallace.html

 
http://www.repubblica.it/2008/09/sezioni/persone/david-foster-wallace/david-foster-wallace/david-foster-wallace.html
cazzo, e io non l'ho ancora finito :(

 cazzo, e io non l'ho ancora finito :(
ho appena scoperto che uno che credevo essere solo l'autore di un libro 
tanto folle quanto ipnotico è anche l'autore del più bell'articolo sul 
Tennis da me mai letto.
e lo scopro giusto dopo che il tizio si è impiccato.
di conseguenza, ora non potrò scrivergli per sapere cosa ne pensava 
della finale di quest'anno.
la frase "è un peccato" non esprime pienamente il mio pensiero, in 
questo caso.
inoltre mi infastidisce pensare che uno con questi gusti decida di 
suicidarsi senza prima consultarmi. bastava giusto un pò di gestione.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html
Federer as Religious Experience
Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television 
has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. 
These are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops 
and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other 
rooms to see if you’re O.K.
The Moments are more intense if you’ve played enough tennis to 
understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do. We’ve all got 
our examples. Here is one. It’s the finals of the 2005 U.S. Open, 
Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set. There’s a 
medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive 
butterfly shape of today’s power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi 
yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline 
winner...until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand 
that pulls Federer way out wide to his ad (=left) side, and Federer gets 
to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the 
service line, which of course is the sort of thing Agassi dines out on, 
and as Federer’s scrambling to reverse and get back to center, Agassi’s 
moving in to take the short ball on the rise, and he smacks it hard 
right back into the same ad corner, trying to wrong-foot Federer, which 
in fact he does — Federer’s still near the corner but running toward the 
centerline, and the ball’s heading to a point behind him now, where he 
just was, and there’s no time to turn his body around, and Agassi’s 
following the shot in to the net at an angle from the backhand 
side...and what Federer now does is somehow instantly reverse thrust and 
sort of skip backward three or four steps, impossibly fast, to hit a 
forehand out of his backhand corner, all his weight moving backward, and 
the forehand is a topspin screamer down the line past Agassi at net, who 
lunges for it but the ball’s past him, and it flies straight down the 
sideline and lands exactly in the deuce corner of Agassi’s side, a 
winner — Federer’s still dancing backward as it lands. And there’s that 
familiar little second of shocked silence from the New York crowd before 
it erupts, and John McEnroe with his color man’s headset on TV says 
(mostly to himself, it sounds like), “How do you hit a winner from that 
position?” And he’s right: given Agassi’s position and world-class 
quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space 
in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time 
and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like 
something out of “The Matrix.” I don’t know what-all sounds were 
involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all 
over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like 
novelty-shop eyeballs.
Anyway, that’s one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on 
TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as 
video porn is to the felt reality of human love.
ed è solo l'inizio, porcodio.

 ed è solo l'inizio, porcodio.
Questo mi fa tornare in mente una cosa:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=QKG8vLt2Q78
...il mondo uggiolante ai tuoi piedi.
Mah, magari e' solo perche' e' lunedi'.
Saluti
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-A-