
The Work of David Foster Wallace with Stefan Ambrosie
Hermitix
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Is Wallace a Good Writer?
i think people who are genuinely obsessed about wallace actually read him. I've met a lot of people who are, dont like mark's fan boys and have only read the communest manifesto where you get nita too. But i find it very awful to say that, oh, wallace is just this privileged white man,. And what he has to say about sufferingnd in mental illness and pain is rendered null by that. Some trust that etleades onleter, which always prustrate me generally. It may be for a larger social contectt or perhaps even an easy out - it's an easy thing to focus on. He's just spelling it out for
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