No apologies for another post about the late David Foster Wallace, whose tragic suicide at the age of 46 is still hard to take.
Just a few random shots really, from restless surfing:
“To say that David Foster Wallace has had a profound influence on my life, the way I think, and the way in which I perceive the world, is an understatement”. – from The Howling Fantods : easily the best source for everything about DFW
“Timothy McSweeney is devastated and lost” – McSweeney Tendency header
“He illuminated the maze brilliantly, even if he couldn’t show us the way out”. New York Times article
And memorable words from the man himself:
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the “rat race” – the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing” – From David’s speech to a graduating class at Kenyon College, 2005
