"I will love him that shall trace or unfeather me."
– Montaigne
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Whoa
I confess, I hated David Foster Wallace's fiction, and considered him a dangerous influence on the young (my favorite thing of his remains a piece on David Lynch published before the release of Lost Highway); but, wow, this is unexpected.
It was sort of shocking. See what I wrote in my blog about it http://hallucina.blogspot.com Notice: I was typically tactless. But honestly it always makes me sad when I hear about succesful people killing themselves- it's like- damn, I'm unsuccessful, do I stand a chance? :-p
Very shocking. I was never a huge fan, beyond a short story here and there, but this came out of left field.
ReplyDeleteStill, it seems like he was relatively quiet in the past 2-3 years. Or am I wrong?
It was sort of shocking. See what I wrote in my blog about it http://hallucina.blogspot.com Notice: I was typically tactless. But honestly it always makes me sad when I hear about succesful people killing themselves- it's like- damn, I'm unsuccessful, do I stand a chance? :-p
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