January 2012
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"the cult of domesticity"
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Feeling Yourself Disintegrate by The Flaming Lips
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difficult classes are just a socially acceptable form of masochism
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“The Victorian Age made one or two mistakes, but they were mistakes that were...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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the movie version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was actually not altogether terrible and I pretty much cried the entire way through
Locked my keys in my car… Again
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“The metaphysics of pleasure in writing, pleasure for extended periods, aren’t...”
– Don DeLillo to David Foster Wallace
blah i am fishing for reassurance
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“There may not be something wrong with 6-8 hours of television a day, but it...”
– David Foster Wallace
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Don Delillo was David Foster Wallace’s favorite writer of the generation that preceded him… shoulda known
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“As far as I can tell, for my generation and maybe the kids younger than us,...”
– David Foster Wallace, replayed in BBC Radio 3’s 2011 documentary “Endnotes,” originally from a 1995 BBC Radio 3 interview. (Unavailable at bbc.co.uk, but here’s a working bootleg.)
Geoff Ward, professor & cultural historian of American literature, introduces this section:
In Wallace’s...
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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...”
– David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
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I don’t have enough pairs of eyes or enough pockets of time to read all of the books I want to read : (
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