Neither Switzerland nor Scotland is the natural home of the exquisite. They're not the kind of places you look for sunflower-clutching, Wildean aesthetes. Harry Lime said that the nearest the Swiss got to high art was the cuckoo clock. He didn't say anything about the Scottish and tartan, so maybe we'd better let that thought go. Just settle for the fact that neither Scotland nor Switzerland is an art-for-art's-sake sort of place. And yet there is an aspect to Roger Federer, of Switzerland, and...
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