The Importance of Faith in Non-Fiction

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I agree about the disservice but then at some point it kind of kept me going in parts where I would have been yeah especially frustrated you know with the story. It's interesting that some of like I have really loved some of his non-fiction pieces and the Roger Federer one is I think so brilliant, he says. "Good old neon was about" we didn't say what good old Neon was about but it's explained in a footnote marginallyUm the reason for the title um well it's not," she said. 'It's almost asking too much of the reader to,' David Foster Wallace adds.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.