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The ghost in Wallace’s machine
“Every love story is a ghost story.” I’m not into ghost stories. I’ve never had the reputed pleasure of being freaked out by tales of psychotic spirits, or spirited psychotics, who are about to lop my head off with a power tool as soon as I drift off to sleep at this backwoods campsite right [...]
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Miscellaneous, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5
The antidote to Infinite Jest?
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality — there is no audience…. Here is the truth — actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. – The Pale King, p. 229 I’m sure everyone else has already mined this irony: We’re reading a book about the extremes of boredom because we loved a book about [...]
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- "The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theater...." June 8, 2011“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theater. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all—all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify an audience. An audience.” He made a gesture I can’t describe: “Gentlemen, welcom […]