Plus ca change... (1)

[bronze_ribbons]

...Tilden was playing more than a mere game. He never forgot what his friend, the famous opera singer Mary Garden, had told him long ago: "You're a tennis artist, Bill, and artists always know better than anyone else when they're right. If you believe in a certain way to play, you play that way no matter what anyone tells you. Once you lose faith in your own artistic judgment, you're lost."

- Marshall Jon Fisher, A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, A World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played (Crown, 2009)

* Quoting because it's interesting, not because I agree with it (I don't, in fact).
* Interesting book. It's about von Cramm vs. Budge, 1937. Among its themes are what it was like to be a gay tennis player. Having to return it to the library before I finish it, but one I will almost certainly revisit some other year. (Tonight's looking like another 3 a.m. date with code (fourth night in a row, gah). On the plus side, I've just found out it's going to be at least three hours before the next build, so that's several hours of clear calligraphy time as soon as I'm done with supper.)