I know it's wrong to assume the illiterate scoundrels that troll Destructoid even know DFW, author of
Infinite Jest. I also know it's wrong to assume you care that he killed himself, and was found dead in his apartment. But this man was as big in my life as Mario, and I know at least one of you out there felt the same way. Fuck. Let's remember the good times.
I actually met him back when I was touring colleges in 2006-2007. He was, for lack of better words, fucking rad. I couldn't help but be a little fan bitch and tell him how his work kept me going through high school, and how my lunches were spent reading his novels in between mooching off my friends DS and listening to shitty MP3 rips of the Arcade Fire's
Funeral. He said something to me that seemed worth memorizing at the time, but I had forgotten it by the next morning. Right now, I wish I could remember it. I imagine it was something profound that would make me happy when skies were gray, and make me strong when I felt weak, or some equally sappy cliche that amounts to understanding that being a whiny bitch doesn't make the world any better. Goddammit you son of a bitch. Goddammit.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/books/AP-Obit-Wallace.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Why you gotta be a punk like that David? Why? Why did you have to go out like the bitch you convinced me not to be? Goddammit. God fucking dammit.
This is like finding out that the Tooth Fairy was real, she just killed herself and your parents took over to keep the truth from you.
Ah well, no one cares till Im 18 anyways.
David Foster Wallace, R.I.P.
Oh wait, he did have a choice in the matter, 'cause he fucking killed himself. Fuck you David.
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David Foster Wallace Dead At 46. Lobster Milkshake. [NVGR][/b]
Doesn't matter, RIP man.
I bet his suicide note was 5,388 pages
Wow... That's pretty awful.
And Aerox, I almost went to Pomona just to have an opportunity to take a class with him. Seriously. And isn't Harvard...like...the Pomona of the East? I remember that shit is right next to Occidental and Cal Tech too. Don't you guys fight or something?
Also, put your guns in the shoebox on top of the hamper. Kids never think to look there.