Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.

David Foster Wallace

Tag: dfw



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The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

David Foster Wallace

Tag: capitalism consumerism american-dream solipsism dfw



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JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of my sweatshirt, affix it to my behind for a tail, like so...

LENORE: What in God's name are you doing?

JAY: Pretend, Lenore. Be an ovum. Be strong. Let me hypothetically batter at you. Batter batter. Surrender to the unreal of the real interior.

LENORE: Are you supposed to be a sperm, wriggling your sweatshirt-string like that?

JAY: I can feel the strength of your membrane, Lenore.

David Foster Wallace

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I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a clean cut youth, a boy next door, and a good egg, and my mother stated at one time that I have the face of a heaven's angel. I have the eyes of an attractive marsupial, and I have baby-soft and white skin, and a fair complexion. I do not even have to shave, and I have finely styled hair without any of dandruff's unsightly itching or flaking. I keep my hair perfectly groomed, neat, and short at all times. I have exceptionally attractive ears.

David Foster Wallace

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Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that I am going to be able to lead a Normal and Productive Life as a lawyer or something here on planet Trillaphon, once I get so I can read again.
(...) Being far away sort of helps with respect to the Bad Thing. Except that is just highly silly when you think about what I said before concerning the fact that the Bad Thing is really

David Foster Wallace

Tag: dfw trillaphon



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If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worried about whether you like me.

David Foster Wallace

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The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

David Foster Wallace

Tag: self-awareness ego dfw



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