David Foster Wallace writes about the “religious experience” of watching Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer in action. I was lucky to see one of his matches from a very close distance at the US Open several years back. He was astounding. Wallace:

[T]he truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.

Update: I found the great Federer shot that Wallace describes early in the essay on YouTube. You’ll find it here at 8:08, with a subsequent replay.
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