May 2010
31 posts
It doesn’t… it doesn’t have a responsibility to care about us one whit...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
… if the book’s about anything, it’s about the question of why am I...
– DFW on Infinite Jest from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
I guess what I’m talking about is entertainment versus art, where that main job...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
Theres something really vital about food that candy’s missing, although to make...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
I’ve never read really good essays about the different kinds of seduction in...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
To define the divide in a sentence: In [conservative] America, families form...
– Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families? (via themadeshop)
I think one of the insideous lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your...
– E. L. Doctorow (via simko)
The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that’s all...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
…most bright people, something happens in your late twenties, where you...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
Say how you’d feel about it, as a springboard. So that I’ve got a context to...
– DFW-Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
Part of the shyness for me is, its very easy for me to play this game of, What...
– DFW from Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourself
a road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
There’s an unbelievable arrogance about even trying to write something- much...
– DFW-Although of course You End Up Becoming Yourselfa road trip with David Foster Wallace
David Lipsky
I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the extent that it...
– DFW from Although of course you end up Becoming Yourself
David Lipsky
Pro-Life or Anti-Sex? →
themadeshop:
veisalgia:
A thought… It seems to me that most Pro-Life people I know really aren’t Pro-Life at all. They are, rather, Anti-Sex. That is, the abortion debate is often just a cover to wage war on the sexual revolution and the Dawn of the Pill. What many Pro-Life people are angry about is the casual sexuality of our age, an era of “abortion on demand.” Pro-Life advocacy, then, is...
Once an “enjoyable thing” becomes a “meme,” we stop enjoying the thing for its...
– Joe Randazzo (via themadeshop)
yes, i understand the irony of rebloging this…