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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 09/15/2008 : 11:37:40 AM
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Writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide a few days ago at the painfully young age of 46. He was one of few writers who was able to make me laugh out loud. Infinite Jest may have been overlong and self-indulgent but it was also hilarious and, like any truly great satire, was impossible to pigeon-hole politically; a sprawling, "post-modern" work that, nevertheless, skewered the pretentions of the avant-guarde, post-modernism and post-structuralism. And while he could generate laughter, at the same time he also tried, and suceeded, to bring a moral voice into his fiction. Hopefully he has found the peace he evidently never had in life. I've linked to a commencement address he recently gave.
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
"You talk to us about heavy artillery. Thank God, we don't have any. It's the lightness of its guns that make the French army what it is." - representative of the French General Staff to the budget commission of the Chamber of Deputies, 1909 |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 11:46:40 AM
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Oh, when I get home I'll try to find the page his description of the fake action film "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun" is on. Next time you're in a book store read it, it's only two pages.
"You talk to us about heavy artillery. Thank God, we don't have any. It's the lightness of its guns that make the French army what it is." - representative of the French General Staff to the budget commission of the Chamber of Deputies, 1909 |
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