I don’t share a lot of links. This one is worth sharing. If you’ve ever read David Foster Wallace, or if your interested in Charles Taylor or postmodernism, or if you like literature – whatever – just read it: HERE.
I have been on the verge of giving up my pursuit of 52 novels this year to read the 1,100 page monster that is Infinite Jest. We’ll see.
There’s a lot of great stuff in the article. My favorite DFW quote from the article (describing watching Roger Federer play tennis:
It’s hard to describe—it’s like a thought that’s also a feeling. One wouldn’t want to make too much of it, or to pretend that it’s any sort of equitable balance; that would be grotesque. But the truth is that whatever deity, entity, energy, or random genetic flux produces sick children also produced Roger Federer, and just look at him down there. Look at that.
