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Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

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The Limitations of Life

David Foster Wallace killed himself to escape the spiral of his solipsism. He thought that was the only way to get out of his of the cycle of getting out of the spiral ofsolipsism. The limitations of life go away in the afterlife but he's doing it as a way to just point to the real limitations of life yeah right or possibly the kind of obliteration of self. "I now want to be a yoda and exactly I don't know if internet fan fiction or whatever" says Dushi Cinephiles' writer-director David Perry.

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