“John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.” MenBeautifulSportsPlayerColorTvsGeniusBlueAll TimeTennisExceptionGapsAdsNormCommentaryLameTennis PlayerBlazersVolley Author:David Foster Wallace
“I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]” DoeBeautifulPerfectBeautyMoralSuitsAdsImperfectMinusPerfect Beauty Author:Ovid