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posted by September 15 at 13:58 PM
onThis week’s Constant Reader is online right now, a few days before the print edition. It’s about David Foster Wallace.
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posted by September 15 at 13:58 PM
onThis week’s Constant Reader is online right now, a few days before the print edition. It’s about David Foster Wallace.
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Well look at you, Mr. Overachiever! Don't make a habit of this, or the other writers might poison your Ragu.
So true, Paul. I don't know that I can even watch Jeopardy again without thinking of Wallace much less read his work and not try to crack the code of his suicide. He was a great writer, and I'm sure his death will further cement that, as pop culture whores scramble to read him now that he is no longer with us.
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The thing is that there's not a whole lot of decoding to do in re-reading his writing. It was often warm- and open-hearted, yes, but almost all of it was also part of a large catalog of all the different and similar kinds of sadness, too.
(and hey -- articles have their own comments sections now?)
Wow. I just read the article. It's good. But it's exactly two sentences long, not counting the footnote. Could this--
--perhaps be the longest single sentence in Stranger history?You should have used footnotes instead of parentheses for maximal mimicry. Also, more sentences beginning with "and but so". What a loss.
For his writing as suicide note, I remember a passage in Infinite Jest where he talked about a couple (I think it was a couple, it's been a few years since I read it) who both had depression, and how every day for them was miserable, and every night they went to bed after a miserable day and knew they would wake up to another miserable day. And one character said it was the most heroic thing, how they went on doing that, day in and day out, without killing themselves.
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