I haven't read it but saved a painfully, blissfully true quote from the book I found on a blog. After reading it was stuck in my head so I saved it for my wallpaper.
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I haven't read it but saved a painfully, blissfully true quote from the book I found on a blog. After reading it was stuck in my head so I saved it for my wallpaper.
Here it is :
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@adisrivastav If you haven’t read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, this is a snippet of what your missing:
“That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That loneliness is not a function of solitude. That logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. That it takes effort to pay attention to any one stimulus for more than a few seconds. That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.”
That is a great excerpt and very "Wallacian" prose indeed. Many don't like his style because it deals with some somber and heavy topics. Coupled with the fact of his taking his own life it becomes all too easy to pigeon-hole DFW as a nihilist. Nothing could be further from the truth. In my opinion because he grapples with such serious issues as isolation, entertainment, and addiction the nuggets can make life much more worth living.
DFW was one of the pioneers of a new artistic style characterized by sincerity and authenticity. A reaction to the deadly -modern irony all too prevalent in late capitalism.
Okay. I may have to read some of his stuff :) Actually, I tried three times but never finished more than five pages since Infinite Jest is humbling in the vocabulary area. First book I’ve ever found that I need the dictionary app always next to me and open..
Oh there are many words in IJ that I don't know off-hand. No shame there!