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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.
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And he says she did a perfect imitation of top-notch tennis.
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This is on 231:
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"Her form was indeed an absolutely perfect imitation of absolutely top-notch tennis,
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without any utilitarian results."
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It's perfect tennis, but she never wins.
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And he reflects on 232:
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"Had not something within her been broken by me