Sharapova blasts way to French final

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 7 05:41:20 CDT 2013


Wtf? 

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On Jun 7, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> PARIS -- It is one of the most famous first lines in literature: "A
> screaming comes across the sky."
> 
> This is how Thomas Pynchon began "Gravity's Rainbow." Among other
> things, it refers to the V-2 rockets produced by the German military.
> No one knows if the famously reclusive author is (or was) a tennis
> fan, but the book, published 40 years ago, was amazingly prescient.
> For it coyly captures the heat, the atomic fission produced by the
> best rivalry in women's tennis today.
> 
> [...]
> 
> http://espn.go.com/tennis/french13/story/_/id/9348738/french-open-maria-sharapova-blasts-way-french-final



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