Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality, and then if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings”
— David Foster Wallace
just the sort of face you would expect from one privileged child watching another privileged child receive natal treats and attentions that are by all rights her own.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
There’s an Ellis Island/pre-Auschwitz aspect to the massed and anxious waiting, but I’m uncomfortable trying to extend the analogy.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
The brochure’s real seduction is not an invitation to fantasize but rather a construction of the fantasy itself.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
I think part of it was something else, something there’s no way a real news story could cover.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
too many choices and no chooser’s manual,
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
the dentist’s office had had a weird sharp clean sweet smell about it, the olfactory equivalent of fluorescent light.