It seems significant that we don’t want things to be quiet, ever, anymore.
David Foster WallaceThe man who knows his limitations, has none.
David Foster WallaceWe are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose?
David Foster WallaceE, devo dire, non capisco neppure perché certa gente è disposta a pagare per venire ribaltata e sospesa e precipitata e poi sbattuta ad alta velocità avanti e indietro, e infine appesa a testa in giù fino a che vomita. È come pagare per fare un incidente stradale. Non lo capisco proprio, e non l'ho mai capito. Non è un fatto regionale o culturale. Penso che il mondo si divide nettamente tra quelli che all'induzione programmata di terrore si eccitano, e quelli che non si eccitano affatto. Il terrore, per me, non è eccitante. È terrificante.
David Foster WallaceTrite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, to erect bridges across the chasms that separate selves. Sexuality is, finally, about imagination. Thanks to brave people's recognition of AIDS as a fact of life, we are beginning to realize that highly charged sex can take place in all sorts of ways we'd forgotten or neglected—in a conversational nuance; in a body's posture, a certain pressure in a held hand. Sex can be everywhere we are, all the time.
David Foster WallaceTags: sex princess aids knight back-in-new-fire
She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether you adored them.
David Foster WallaceHave a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his promise in, and didn't seem just a whole hell of a lot happier or tighter wrapped than his own failed father, leaving you yourself in a kind of feral and flux-ridden state with respect to talent.
David Foster WallaceYou have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.
David Foster WallaceTags: writing vanity fun ego the-nature-of-the-fun
I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle the metaphysics’ axioms and prejudices, show it in cross section and reveal the advantages of its abandonment. It’s literally aggravating: you awaken them to the fact that they’ve been unconsciously imbibing some narcotic pharmakon since they were old enough to say “Momma.”
-Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993)
The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.
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