‘The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. . . . ‘ 1/2
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‘...The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. . . . The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness.’
David Foster Wallace
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Damn. Maybe I should be reading David Foster Wallace...For some reason, this is totally different than what I would have expected.
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After having read some bios, my impression is this is what you would get from post-Infinite Jest DFW, not pre-IJ DFW. He appeared to have realised he was a pretentious asshole in his 30s.
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