But so some E.T.A.s [=students at Enfied Tennis Academy]\u2013not just Hal Incandenza by any means\u2013are involved with recreational substances, is the point. Like who isn\u2019t, at some life-stage, in the U.S.A. and Interdependent regions, in these troubled times, for the most part. Though a decent percentage of E.T.A. students aren\u2019t at all. I.e. involved. Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2013Yes, I\u2019m finally reading this, you can expect a report sometime in the Year of the Original Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine. Not all of it is good, but there\u2019s some very compelling stuff (to me) which is weirdly reminiscent of Walker Percy, but with tennis instead of the South.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But so some E.T.A.s [=students at Enfied Tennis Academy]\u2013not just Hal Incandenza by any means\u2013are involved with recreational substances, is the point. Like who isn\u2019t, at some life-stage, in the U.S.A. and Interdependent regions, in these troubled times, for the most part. Though a decent percentage of E.T.A. students aren\u2019t at all. I.e. involved. Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,177],"tags":[438,52,414,440,64,439],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-too-much-is-never-enough","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-if-whiskey-were-a-woman-id-be-married-for-sure","tag-la-nouvelle-heloise","tag-snoopy-sno-cone-machine","tag-sublimity-now","tag-walker-percy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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