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fuck. too sad. he was a literary hero of mine and hugely influential and of course totally entertaining. we lost perhaps one of the most interesting voices on the planet.
RIP David Foster Wallace. im fucking bummed.
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09/15/08
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Fredo
very sad indeed. 
09/15/08
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ignatius
Phreak said: " Sep 15, 2:04am
you would be sad about somne white trash who punched his own ticket"
thanks phreak. you're a douchebag
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reehc said: " "
totally. i'm gonna go listen to the audio book version of "consider the lobster" and try and focus on the humor. he had a great capacity for humor. RIP mr. wallace. i'm fucking shocked. gutted.
09/15/08
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papergoose
yeah, it tore me up.
Infinite Jest literally kept me from offing myself.
I found so much joy in that book, so much love for life... this was completely blindsided me.
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password
oh god, terrible news.
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n9
When I found out I put my head down and cried and cried. I don't think that I've ever cried for someone that I wasn't related to.
I know that I'm all fucked up and that IJ was the ultimate pretentious hipster bullshit book. and all that.
But it was the first book that ever spoke to me. Really spoke to me. I remember laughing uncontrollably at it, crying at it, being so dumbfounded by it that I lost the ability to scan for a few seconds and was for a moment nothing more than unthinking eyeballs hovering over marks on paper. Transcendent is what I want to call it, but the thing is that the book was about problems with saying things like that. Big problems. The delusions of people that would say something like that. The book was the darkest instrument I've ever brought to my mind. And it troubles me that he lost his way. How could he? If he has then is there any hope for us?
I guess what I mean to say is that his was the smartest voice I've ever heard. His off the cuff answers in awkward interviews where he'd pause for 20 seconds after being asked a question, where he was mistakenly thinking that the questioner actually wanted the question to be *answered* as in definitively... his answers, improvised, were perfect constructions and they always, always, always brought things around to what was really, really real to him. His essential dichotomy was warm/cold. His answers always ended up talking about the human warmth, about the comforts that we can offer, about how we all really need to get with the program and get our stars out so that we can all bring each other up.
Stars out. Salinger wrote that and today David Foster Wallace is Seymore and I'm Buddy. Lost in my flat words and flat life to the death of my hero.
09/15/08
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n9
"And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out."
09/15/08
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ignatius
n9 said: " And it troubles me that he lost his way. How could he? If he has then is there any hope for us?
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i know exactly how you feel. but you just have to let go and diversify your input to save yourself. "buy the ticket, take the ride"
i bought infinite jest the day it came out before i knew what a hipster was so i've never thought of it or any of his books as anything hipster related. to me they transcend all that kind of shit. when he was on w/his writing, which was usually always, he was as on as anyone could be. I still think Oblivion is one of the sharpest pieces of fiction i've ever read. all short stories and each one amazing.
i wish i could commit it all to memory.. every line he's written.
09/16/08
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SenorFrio
Damn. That's really sad news. I really liked his writing. RIP.
09/16/08
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ignatius
interesting older interview of DFW w/charlie rose. it's about 30 mins long
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09/16/08
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ekstrak
As my mate put it "..anyone who writes Infinite Jest, should really be entitled to live forever.."
RIP. Awesome author.
09/16/08
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n9
ig: I bought the book the day it came out, too. I'd never heard of a hipster either, but in the time since then, in Brooklyn, IJ is the book to read if you go that way. I guess I sort of meant that it was cliche for a white guy in brooklyn that plays em, etc, etc, etc to love DFW, but it was so much more than that for me. Don't know why I even brought it up.
I'm contemplating the 6th read of it, though. It's destroyed blueness is calling out to me.
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ignatius
n9 said: "ig: I bought the book the day it came out, too. I'd never heard of a hipster either, but in the time since then, in Brooklyn, IJ is the book to read if you go that way. I guess I sort of meant that it was cliche for a white guy in brooklyn that plays em, etc, etc, etc to love DFW, but it was so much more than that for me. Don't know why I even brought it up."
i figured it was something like that but had to disassociate hipster/DFW in my head for myself. i'm just mouthy lately.
n9 said: "I'm contemplating the 6th read of it, though. It's destroyed blueness is calling out to me."
i've only read it once. i started it again last night. i'll probably read Oblivion again real soon too. then A Confederacy of Dunces again to wind down. it's going to be quite a meditation over the next month.
09/20/08
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ignatius
this is pretty cool. great stories from people who knew him/met him etc.
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