Comments on: “It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know”

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:34:59 +0000

I was thinking of him this morning. Couldn’t sleep last night. Got up at 2 and read some of IJ. I found some of my own thoughts there – stuff that I haven’t spoken aloud but that has looped through my brain. That’s been such a signature experience of reading Infinite Jest: the writing makes me pay better attention to my own life, to the massive everything inside and outside.

He thought so many thoughts, this man. And he it down. All of it. Turn the clock back a year and two weeks…

By: Reed

Reed — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:19:30 +0000

Ubi caritas est vera deus ibi est.

By: Testudines

Testudines — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:57:47 +0000

Through his words and his imagination both his lived and his considered experiences have come to life in me, and I imagine, in so many of us, and in us he lives on as some indelible dye will become part of great quantities of certain garments.

By: Monday Medley « No Pun Intended

Monday Medley « No Pun Intended — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:52:53 +0000

[...] David Foster Wallace’s death this weekend: Infinite Summer ran a great piece, and found the best DFW line to sum up how the feeling of his death; McSweeney’s has a bunch of memorial pieces; Howling Fantods links to some others. We know [...]

By: chris koenigsberg

chris koenigsberg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:46:03 +0000

well I DID read Infinite Jest over the summer, the whole thing, on my Kindle, from start to finish including all the footnotes.

and I hadn’t even heard of this website/blog, until I was more than halfway through the book and someone sent me a link.

and I’m sorry I didn’t check out any of DFW’s work while he was still alive.

By: Dan Summers

Dan Summers — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:06:03 +0000

Those words make me cry every time I read them.

And lo, indeed.

By: amber cunningham

amber cunningham — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:54:02 +0000

“It doesn’t happen all the time. It’s these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone — intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I’m in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don’t with other art.”

A nail hit firmly on the head, by the man himself.

http://www.salon.com/09/features/wallace2.html

By: cin

cin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:24:23 +0000

DFW – you are in here.

By: Imo

Imo — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:16:16 +0000

This is exactly how I feel, thank you for articulating it better than I could.

By: Percy

Percy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:32:17 +0000

Every single time that I’ve read a few pages of IJ (this summer) and put it down, I’ve been impressed by DFW’s genius and I’ve felt sad that he’s not around to weave more of his magic.