EveryLoveStoryIsGhostStory

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (David Foster Wallace Bio)

  • Good
  • Serous mental problems, Big pot and alcohol problems, big into AA.
  • Interested in Buddhism
  • "The world is everything that is the case" (Tractatus. Wallace though one of the best opening lines in western it.)
    • Does our understanding of what we experience derive from objective reality or from cognitive limitations with us ? (Is language window or cage?)
  • Do we have real existence outside of what we do/say/perceive? Are these really under our control?

  • Infinite Jest:

    > Are we choosing what to love carefully enough ?

    > "Generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of fretting it had anything to say.

    > Suddenly, for Wallace, sincerity was a virtue and saying what you meant a calling.

    > "One of the points of Infinite Jets is that the center is empty" (inside Hal there's pretty much nothing at all, he knows)

  • This is water

    > The trick is keeping the truth up front in daily conscious"

    > Learning how to think really means being aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience

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