A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
structured fun
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
The very sun itself seemed preset for our comfort.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
have felt as bleak as I’ve felt since puberty,
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
wildly seductive
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
It’s cloudless and dry, but forehead-tighteningly hot. Noon will be a kiln.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
It’s just this definition of “author” that Barthes in ’68 was trying to refute, arguing with respect to the first criterion that a writer cannot determine his text’s consequences enough to be really responsible (Salinger wasn’t hauled into court as an accessory when John Lennon was shot), and with respect to the second that the writer’s not the tex
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An ad that pretends to be art is—at absolute best—like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what’s sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill’s real spirit, it messes with our heads and
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at the rate a feather falls.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
is now revealed to me to be absurd and in a certain way obscene,