41. Like clockwork, their sorority meets once a year, every year, on the red clay of Paris in springtime. 42. Not even the red clay can keep a secret if memory is stronger than time. 43. Now all you see is the red clay that bulldozers cut open. 44. One of them was in reach of his hand, a rigid, immobile hand, strangely white against the soft red clay it lay in. 45. Red clay runs into streams and brown haze hangs low. 46. Rarely has he lacked confidence in his game outside the gates of Roland Garros, where his mental state annually turns to dust on the red clay. 47. Roll a thin coil of red clay, shape into a loop and press firmly to the back of the striped frame for a hanger loop. 48. Roll three thin coils of red clay the same length as the white log. 49. Roll three tiny balls of red clay for holly berries and press onto the leaves. 50. She once beat Billie Jean King on Center Court at Wimbledon, and Chris Evert on the red Paris clay. |