Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Impossibility of Knowing Who You Are
I associate with David Foster Wallace the real person the author for just being like a good person that can connect with other people in a very minimal way. That doesn't expect too much out of that and that just appreciates the beauty of life but find so many obstacles in the way between him and the appreciation of it yeah It's interesting because in his um it like I think that the the meta point that we cannot ever know another person is one clear clear point the other the other point is that in his shitty attempt at knowing who Neil was that takes the blink of an eye he then outlines like this total he's trying really hard to describe an internal struggle which might be right in that last sentence
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