David Foster Wallace’s Wincing Worries About Wisdom
John Jeremiah Sullivan on DFW, via David Quigg: It’s this quality, of being inwardly divided, that risks getting flattened and written out of (David Foster) Wallace’s story by his postmortem idolization, which would make of him a dispenser of wisdom. We should guard against that. We’ll lose the most essential Wallace, the one that is […]
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