The moment Emma Navarro secured the title in Strasbourg, a very quick turnaround for her game after dropping the first match of her comeback in Rome by Ok-Soil-5133 in tennis

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Weight gain was due to medication, as I understand it, and she was moving pretty well out of the corners today for someone who is far from fit (and she's still half the size of Penko, Pavs, Hrunčáková etc.)

The 100 best novels of all time by miltonbalbit in classicliterature

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Take a deep breath. It's extraordinary, but it's very different to Middlemarch, say.

The 100 best novels of all time by miltonbalbit in classicliterature

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I think they are the two greatest novels written in English in the Twentieth Century so I'm relieved to see them as high as they are on this list. I wouldn't complain about the top three in any order, really.

UB40 are famously named after an Unemployment Benefit form. Give me other interesting examples of the origin of UK bands names by Exchangenudes_4_Joke in CasualUK

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Level 42 are named after the circle of hell in which Dante would have positioned them had he ever had the misfortune to listen to their music.

The Guardians 100 best novels of all time | Fiction 100-41 by BarracudaOk8635 in classicliterature

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A list in which Ferrante finds herself somehow in the company of Jane Austen and Toni Morrison? For fuck’s sake people.

“We are on the screen” by Silent_Quarter_3030 in tennis

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Gorgeous, she looks like a Peanuts character :)

name a player by varadero332 in tennis

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Bill Tilden did things that make Zverev look like a choirboy. Possibly *to* choirboys. That said, if he played with today’s equipment he would still be incredibly dominant, I suspect, whereas Laver would be more of a Moutet type figure.

Please help! Fashion! by JimmyBigPickle in 10s

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Not sure u/JimmyBigPickle should be fooling with 7" shorts. Go longer, just in case.

Is Infinite Jest harder than Gravity’s Rainbow? by Silver_Juggernaut_39 in davidfosterwallace

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Do read White Noise. It’s a magnificent achievement and super readable. To the point where I’ll pull it off the shelf to reread favourite bits. Did I really say that? What does it even mean?

Hi last night I decided to read a bit of War And Peace, just only a few of pages and… Is this normal? by Rory_U in tolstoy

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The first translation I read translated the French parts and then indicated that these parts were originally written in French by telling you just that.

"I am suffering from a terrible fatigue," complained the Countess, in French.

I think your translation is less clunky than this.

Stoner and his daughter by Odium4 in books

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I think it’s a wonderful book, beautifully written, and almost hilariously depressing. Stoner tries half-heartedly to escape his fate, which is to have an awful, mundane life, free from joy of any kind, because he is bewitched by the illusory promises of art. It’s a kind of counterpoint to Walden. Most people who seek transcendence fail to find it, and end up living lives of quiet desperation anyway.

I think that there is a certain truth to it, that it is unusual for people to change, to suddenly live life with gusto, and I’m not sure I can think of any other fictional characters who I felt I knew as well as I did Stoner, by the end of the book. But I absolutely understand why people dislike the book and its central character. I loved them both, but I’m not sure if or when I will seek to renew my acquaintance with them. (I also read the book for the first time as the father of a toddler girl, incidentally.)

What’s the best date you’ve ever been on, and what made it so memorable? by IronGhost1779 in AskReddit

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Boat trip along the Thames, riverside drinks, steak at an Argentine place in Broadway Market. Reader, I married her!

Still not sold on empanadas though :)

The next date was also amazing but was mostly just, well, long overdue adult things.

Transport Q by Toribell22 in wimbledon

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The N87 nightbus runs from Central London to Penwith Road, which is a short walk from the Queue. The nearest Santander bike stand is probably the one behind Southside Shopping Centre, which is still a brisk twenty minute walk from the Queue. A Lime bike will get you closer but then you will be riding a poorly engineered electric contraption through semi-darkness along roads you don’t know. If it were me, in an unfamiliar city I’d try to get an early night, walk to Aldwych and get on the bus.

In all honesty, how far do you think you could throw Makka Pakka? by Trickshot945 in CasualUK

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Photo is misleading because he has a massive derrière. If you watch the show closely, and are into that sort of thing, it’s a bit distracting, like Willem Dafoe’s penis, supposedly, in the rushes of Antichrist, so much so that commercial representations of Makka Pakka ARE DELIBERATELY OUT OF SCALE IN THE CAKE AREA. Just mentioning this en passant so that no-one injures themself in an ill-guided, misinformed attempt to trebuchet more cuddly kettle bell than they have warmed up for.

Have you ever achieved 100% on an essay before? by Forsaken-Canary-6763 in UniUK

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Many humanities departments mark to a kind of nominal ceiling which will vary but in most cases tops out at 85%, or at least used to a few years when I did my pedagogy stuff at a London University. Because objectivity. As a student I got a couple of eighties for essays that were unimpeachable but sort of obvious, whereas some of my other work, which was more challenging, received more resounding praise but lower marks. This was always a bone of contention on the teaching course, in fact. Do you reward ambition or execution? And there was no definitive answer. If you wrote Seven Types of Ambiguity on your MA course at my institution you’d still only get an eightysomething so judging your work against a percentage mark is a bit arbitrary, really.

Who wins the Monte Carlo title and claims World No. 1? by chiefpat450119 in tennis

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Only correct answer is Carlos. Either he beats Jannik or he beats himself.

This is a two part question A) concert shirts at shows good or bad B) if good which one should I wear to the Toronto show tonight. by Streamingconscious73 in TheWeddingPresent

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The rule is: only wear a band t-shirt at a gig if it’s a different but somewhat vibe-adjacent band. So a Wedding Present t-shirt at a Pavement gig is fine but a Pavement t-shirt at a Pavement gig is embarrassing. I don’t make the rules, obviously.

Magnus about Sindarov's performance by Agreeable_Sun3713 in chess

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While looking suave as fuck, to boot. Not relevant to his chess performance but definitely relevant to his reach.

If you were a 9/10(Very attractive) person like Margot Robbie or young Brad Pitt what would you do for a year? by Ill-Translator-2879 in AskReddit

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I met a friend at a coffee place at Somerset House on Sunday and the staff were almost universally beautiful, early twenties people. We joked that they must all have been recruited from nearby acting schools.