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Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
I need to read ‘Forever Overhead’ by DFW, which sounds like a story that uses the diving board as a microcosm to show the negative sides of self-awareness.
a substantial number of persons with no discernible function at all.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Consider the Lobster
Julie and Faye are exchanging anecdotes and inclinations for the twentieth straight month. Julie tells Faye that she, Julie, best likes: contemporary poetry, unkind women, words with univocal definitions, faces whose expressions change by the second, an obscure and limited-edition Canadian encyclopedia called LaPlace’s Guide to Total Data, the gent
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
Connally, his arm in a sling, hovered pacing at the perimeter of our circle, drinking at a bottled seltzer whose volume seemed to remain somehow constant.
David Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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