Sublime

in a three-dimensional drama the midpoint is where a character learns what they are capable of, and in a two-dimensional drama the truth about the adversary

He pulls out a tough fifth set, and I tell anyone who’ll listen that he’s on his way to becoming the best ever.

When we resume play, however, Pete is a different person. Not revived, not reenergized—wholly different. He’s done it again, sloughed off that other doubt-ridden Pete as a snake sheds its skin. And now he’s in the process of shedding me. Leading 5–4, he starts the tenth game of the set by blasting three straight aces. But not just any aces. They ev