April 2011
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“‘Some dog has destroyed my flower garden,’ Tom said lackadaisically.”
– Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library | The Awl
Also, there are some great puns in here.
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Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help... →
In this way, Sally Foster Wallace and her son shared a sensibility so exactly alike that it seems to vibrate between them like a tuning fork.
This is sort of a random quote to excerpt here, but I’m trying to avoid spoilers, and it gives you a pretty good idea of the quality of the writing. This is a great, sad, thought-provoking read, with lots to say about depression, family, and being...
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Rands In Repose: A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring... →
Beginning is a three-phrase commit: you’re either fretting about starting, you’re preparing to begin, or you’ve begun. It’s the middle state of preparation I want to explore, because it is during this time that we unnecessarily torture ourselves. We lie to ourselves about wasting time and beat ourselves up with guilt-laden words like procrastination, slacker, and lazy, and I believe we’re...
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