Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Automatic beauty

Page 260:

"You can tell - if you play seriously - you can tell just the way a ball comes off a guy's strings whether the lob is going to land fair. There's surprisingly little thought. Coaches tell serious players what to do so often it gets automatic. John Wayne's game could be described as having a kind of automatic beauty."

2 comments:

  1. BTW - you may not have seen this: http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/elements-of-hysterical-realist-style/

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  2. Thank you Mr. Ashdale. I now know what it means to Wallacize. And though I can enjoy minimalist stuff, I have to say that I am a fan of Wallacifized stories. He had some mind that guy. Incandescent.

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