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You know how Rick on Rick and Morty is a genius who can think arbitrarily deep, but operates by “don’t think about it” and strikes a precarious irony-sincerity balance that races 1 step ahead of nihilism? I think David Foster Wallace is what you get if you *do* think about it
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DFW is the anti-Rick. I’ve read his major essays and started but abandoned Infinite Jest and I can see how his inability to “not think about it” perhaps drove him to suicide (I don’t know the details/backstory there do can’t be sure)
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afaik, he was on meds that were working. Decided to try to wean off as per doctor rec. Once he was off of them his depression came back bad. He tried to get back on the meds but they didn’t work anymore, and he couldn’t find anything that did
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