Posted by evenintherain on March 15, 2010, at 2:23:49
In reply to Wallace » evenintherain, posted by floatingbridge on March 14, 2010, at 12:31:37
yes, i read that article, it was a good one.
and yes, reading the novels do take some commitment (i think it took me 3 full months of reading every day to complete "infinite jest"), but i found it very rewarding and had a ton of fun. so much so that i look back at the time in my life as very happy, though i doubt this could have been the case (crummy temp job and long-distance relationship?)
"the depressed person" seems to come up a lot, and i don't remember if it's one i've read (always bad with titles!), i don't know which collection it's in either, but i will find out and read it.
i definitely remember "good old neon" in which the narrator (a golden boy with a charmed life) reflects upon what is wrong with him while plotting his own suicide and "david wallace" even makes a cameo in the story (or the memory of him, the awkward character in comparison).
and the character Kate in "infinite jest," his description of her depression being terrifyingly accurate.
i mostly remember funny, astute little observations he would make, like how we always look into the tissue after we blow our noses.
what do we expect?
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