![]() ![]() Tennis is essential to Infinite Jest, and Wallace reiterates again and again that it is not only a game of moments, but of future positions. The quote is attuned to tennis as a kind of philosophy, something in dialogue with mental aspects alongside the more obvious physical ones. It recurs and resurfaces in different characters’ mouths throughout Infinite Jest, Wallace’s most sprawling and best-known work. ![]() ‘Chess on the run’ is one of the late novelist David Foster Wallace’s favorite metaphors for tennis.
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