Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Footnote included.
The October 2003 issue of Esquire celebrates their 70th anniversary. As part of this rave-up, they list the 70 greatest sentences to appear in their pages. David Foster Wallace made the cut with this Michael Chang-based gem:
"He has a mushroom-shaped head, inky-black hair, and an expression of deep and intractable unhappiness, as unhappy a face I've seen outside a graduate creative-writing program.44
44. Chang's mother is here - one of the most infamous of the dreaded Tennis Parents of the men's and women's tours, a woman who's reliably rumored to have reached down her child's shorts in public to check his underwear - and her attendance (she's seated hierophantically in the player-guest boxes courtside) may have something to do with the staggering woe of Chang's mien and play."
- "The String Theory," 1996.
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