Chili’s Reviews > String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis > Status Update
Chili
is 36% done
“…the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one pursuit. An almost ascetic focus. A sub-sumption of almost all other features of human life to their one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very serious and very small.”
— Aug 10, 2026 05:47PM
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Chili
is 44% done
“…he has the body of an upright greyhound and the face of—eerily, uncannily—a fresh-hatched chicken (plus soulless eyes that reflect no light and seem to “see” only in the way that fish’s and birds’ eyes “see”).”
Lol DFW’s kinda hilarious
— Aug 10, 2026 06:55PM
Lol DFW’s kinda hilarious
Chili
is 25% done
“It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.”
— Aug 10, 2026 07:15AM