Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
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The Optimism of David Foster Wallace
I think the effort of David Foster Wallace is also not supposed to be something that we are supposed to applaud as a triumph of connecting with with somebody else because it just sounds like David Foster Wallace to you know and his own neuroses. I love the part where he he tries meditation and he finds that he's so good at it because he's just trying to impress the meditation teacher and meditation teacher saw through him. The real ear more enduring and sentimental part of him commanding that other part to be silent as if looking at levelly in the eye and saying almost allowed not another wordlike he's trying to quiet now this David Wallace is trying to quiet the voice in his own head.
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