Tennis at its limit as beauty testimony — Federer as a body whose relation to physical law looks like another…
echoes
From: DFW on Roger Federer — NPR Weekend Edition Saturday (August 19, 2006)
- Early text:
[scene] Wallace's live-spectatorship account: Federer is
really, really beautiful in the Michael Jordan way — seemingly a mutation,
a member of an adjacent species on altered terms with physical
law; the ball grants him an extra beat; the
grace is effortless, no scrambling [01:27–02:02]; seeing him live is like
watching Baryshnikov and worth going way out of one's way for
[03:05–03:11]
- IJ echo: the novel's tennis metaphysics — Schtitt's philosophy of the
game as a spiritual/limit discipline, scene 026 (digest scenes-catalog:
pp. 79–85), and the body-tennis theme generally
(the-body-tennis)
- Weight: shared-preoccupation