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In response to
""I'm wondering if maybe an angel will come and set them free. Is this too much to ask?" this is terrific - thanks! -- nm"
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"What's going on here? Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match."
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"I believe it was part of a wider tennis tournament, somewhere in south-west London, and the winner of this match would then go on to face the winner of another match and, if he won that, the winner of another match. And so on until he reached the final and, fingers crossed, he won the title.
That, at least, is what this spectacle on Court 18 used to be; what it started out as. It's not that anymore and hasn't been for a few hours now. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it is long and it's horrifying and it's very long to boot. Is it death? I think it might be death."
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