"Schtitt knew real tennis was really about...the place where things broke down, fragmented into beauty."
DFW refers to beauty three times in this long paragraph about Schtitt. Nice stuff.
And the depiction of the German Schtitt is classic, hillarious. How many Eccentric EuroSport Philosophers have I met in my days?
"This myth of the competition and bestness we fight for you players here: this myth: they assume here always the efficient way is to plow in straight, go! The story that the shortest way between two places is the straight line..."
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