"His concern was always what it is to be a human being - that is, how to be an actual person, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal."
David Foster Wallace on Dostoevsky (via spraycharles)
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Endnotes: David Foster Wallace (BBC Documentary)
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“The forgiveness machine was seven-feet long,” she says, “with lots of weird plastic bits and pieces. Heavy as hell.” The idea was that you wrote down the thing that you wanted to forgive, or to be forgiven for, and a vacuum sucked your piece of paper in one end. At the other it was shredded, and hey presto. “Forgiving is never as easy as we would like,” she says. “Apparently quite a lot of people cried.” - Karen Green
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"The metaphysics of pleasure in writing, pleasure for extended periods, aren’t easy to unravel. There’s an electrical impulse connected to language and when it takes you into untouristed parts of your consciousness, this can be the deepest writerly pleasure — but it’s not likely to happen except in brief bursts, for a sentence or two, or a short paragraph. Longer-term fun is a function of some mysterious combination of writer, story, characters — the book’s developing form, what it allows you to do and not do, feel and not feel. I think fun has to announce itself."
David Foster Wallace’s annotations of Don Delillo’s Players
