QOTD

Posted on November 9, 2012 11:27 am by Patti Niehoff

What looks like the cage’s exit is actually the bars of the cage.

Excerpt From: David Foster Wallace. “Infinite Jest.” Little, Brown and Company, 2009-04-13. iBooks.
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WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN

Posted on September 18, 2012 9:23 pm by Patti Niehoff

Yes, I am reading it again: Infinite Jest. There are so many people and things in it that the sheer density of stuff has enough mass to affect my intellectual gravity field.

There are also so many favorite quotes that I’m planning on wearing out one whole yellow pencil by the time that I reach the end of the book.

Infinite Jest tour of Boston (kottke.org)

QOTD

Posted on May 29, 2012 3:54 pm by Patti Niehoff

WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN.

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest p. 81

More Infinite Jest thoughts

Posted on September 7, 2009 4:27 pm by Patti Niehoff

David Foster Wallace‘s writing is like a firework, always fading away.

A.S. Byatt‘s writing has life in it. It is solid, and will happily last and live as long as is possible for a book to live.

DFW’s Infinite Jest frightens me with the possibility always of its frivolity, its center of nothingness, despair, entertainment as a main goal in life and entertainment as ultimately empty and leading literally to death and decay and waste around us.

It is amazing that DFW lived long enough to create that work. It is amazing that he lived through all of the experiences that he must have in order to write of these subjects, of addiction to substances and activities and of recovery from these addictions. You can’t simply make up stuff like the monologues and descriptions of AA, in Boston or elsewhere, without having been through the process yourself. This is not something which you can simply imagine or extrapolate or get as advice or reminiscences from friends.

This is it, the real thing.