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And then a little further down the page:
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"She who was so cruel and crafty in everyday life
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revealed an innocence of frankness,
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a kindness of ball playing that permitted a second-rate but determined player,
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no matter how uncouth and
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incompetent, to poke and cut his way to victory."
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That pose--the pose of tennis service, the raised foot--
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it's the same pose she uses to seduce him in that scene I just read
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after their fight: "I feel sort of romantic tonight."
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She is acting out a form: in the first case the form of
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romantic fiction, the heroine who swoons back;
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in this scene the form of the game, the perfect form of tennis.