D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, Different Kinds of Intelligence, Bret Easton Ellis, Irony vs. Sincerity, and 12-Step Philosophy
Otherppl with Brad Listi
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The Importance of Intelligence
I think the stories about how smart David was are true. I mean everything I learned for every love stories a ghost story really confirmed that you know well one that he was insanely intelligent and two that he really worked to be a great student. Well see that was part of it that surprised me because I knew having read him that he was obviously a huge mind. Yeah I can see him saying that I may have stumbled off of the straight now but to me it's not it's not really inconsistent at all. He had focus partially because because of his mental difficulties I don't think anything else felt quite so alive to David as as study.
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