"The truth will set you free—but not until it’s done with you."
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, as quoted in D. T. Max’s Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (via fishingboatproceeds)
THE WORLD IN PLACE OF ITSELF
October 7, 2012
August 4, 2012
"The problem is that, however misprised it’s been, what’s been passed down from the postmodern heyday is sarcasm, cynicism, a manic ennui… and a terrible penchant for ironic diagnosis of unpleasantness instead of an ambition not just to diagnose and ridicule but to redeem."
— David Foster Wallace
The book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The first sentence: “I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.”
The bikini: Hanalei Bikini by Mikoh. Top $70.
August 3, 2012
"If you close your eyes on a busy urban sidewalk the sound of everybody’s different footwear’s footsteps all put together sounds like something getting chewed by something huge and tireless and patient."
— Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace (via labeledboners)
(Source: boner-mifflin)
May 30, 2012
"…and it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance… It’s not that students don’t ‘get’ Kafka’s humor, but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get — the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is, in fact, our home."
— David Foster Wallace (via technicoloring)
May 9, 2012
"I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience."
— David Foster Wallace’s legendary This Is Water 2005 commencement address
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