while i admire Infinite Jest, i'm not sure it's as funny as The Bell Jar .. or Michelle Tea's first memoir, for that matter (The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America). curiously (or perhaps *not* ..), all three books have substantial Boston connections, either in setting, background of author, or both.
.. with that said, "humor" probably wasn't the foremost thing that Foster Wallace kid was aiming for. more The Inferno, with A.A. the organizing principle rather than the Holy Roman Church.
Even though i cbf writing this small comment, and even though i am risking embarrassment to myself at having maybe missed the point of the three pictures (two of relating to foster wallace's book, and one unrelated (or purportedly unrelated) of an apology) and the 'twin towers' title which maybe, amongst all the connections i missed, do actually mean something. Nonetheless, i am foolhardy, and, why pass up a random chance to make a meaningless comment out of the 5 trillion posts i could have contingently alighted upon? There is no answer, because there are no answers. Anyway. to my comment: i feel like i am stating the obvious here, but, i still have ("have") to ask: are the pictures a comment amounting to: YEAH Foster wallace, you topped yourself because your novel was shit? that's just the first impression i got. not sure if everyone thought that and just did not mnention it. for the sake of full disclosure, i have not read his novels, so i am not personally attesting to their lack of quality, i'm just saying, i saw the
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maybe he was thinking of the eerie cover of Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997).
wasn't the first time the author used the World Trade Center as character: they make an appearance in 1977's Players (along with terrorism and these bored urbanites who provide a sort of template for David Foster Wallace's sense of dialogue [i used to think i was joaking till Wallace's stuff was gathered up t'be sent to a special collection at the University of Texas: he owned a heavily marked-up copy]).
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.. with that said, "humor" probably wasn't the foremost thing that Foster Wallace kid was aiming for. more The Inferno, with A.A. the organizing principle rather than the Holy Roman Church.
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wasn't the first time the author used the World Trade Center as character: they make an appearance in 1977's Players (along with terrorism and these bored urbanites who provide a sort of template for David Foster Wallace's sense of dialogue [i used to think i was joaking till Wallace's stuff was gathered up t'be sent to a special collection at the University of Texas: he owned a heavily marked-up copy]).
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