Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
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The Suicidal Ideation of David Wallace
When David Foster Wallace took his own life I remember thinking like how's this guy taking for granted all of the shit that went his way and here I am barely you know striking out looking and dropping balls in right field. He was a professor who seemingly had all of the things that we would want as a professor thing including things that not most professors could never have. In that brief moment when we formed that impression of what we thought David Foster Wallace must have been thinking about Neil, he fleshed it out into something much more than just an idea.
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