It seems that people will only grow to love David Foster Wallace more as the years go on. It’s what usually happens when you can’t get someone anymore.
Here’s a great link to more DFW morsels from Lincoln Michel over at The Faster Times, from the anticipation of Wallace’s unfinished novel, Pale King (due to be released this year), to a great video of him drinking from an empty glass while talking about getting irritated with people who make him parse unnecessarily.
An excerpt:
But you’ll notice this is the downside of starting to pay attention. You start noticing, you know, all the people who say at this time rather than now. Why did they just take up one third of a second of my lifetime making me parse at this time rather of just saying now to me. And you start being bugged.
There’s a lot more over there, so be sure to get your DFW fix.
