Sharapova blasts way to French final

[Tom Beshear]

Way to stretch a metaphor!

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From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 6:28 AM
Subject: Sharapova blasts way to French final


> 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