wallace-l: DFW suicide?

[Matt Bucher]

This is a quote by Nabokov from ADA originally posted to the list by
Jesse Hilson (anyone have his email??)

"The sky was so heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly
those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At
every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored
nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness in her neck and
arms. As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform
a series of receding Lucettes -- telling them to pass it on and on in a
trick-crystal regression -- that what death amounted to was only a more
complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude."


Infinite Jest is #9 on Amazon bestsellers right now.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/



2008/9/15 Ravi <ravisax at gmail.com>:
> They're replaying an interview with him on Fresh Air now (in Chicago anyway)
>
> On Sep 15, 2008, at 11:42 AM, zengirl at rcn.com wrote:
>
> Until now, I was someone who would probably have made fun of people who took
> the death of a famous person (vs. a "real" friend) so personally.  But I
> feel "bone-marrow-deep depressed" about this, too.  I'm one of many who
> feels that he changed, and even saved, my life.  I wish that someone could
> have done the same for him.
> I think that DFW would be pleased to know that he had so many "ideal
> readers"--the kind that achieved a true intimacy with, in, and through his
> words.  I've never forgotten that a wise counselor at a rehab facility once
> told me that "addiction is an intimacy disorder," and I've long believed
> that the kind of mindfulness DFW advocated in his Kenyon speech is the way
> out of such disorders, whether they take the form of addiction, neurosis,
> depression, or anything else.  To honor him, I will try harder to live in
> that kind of mindful state.  Silver linings are usually so bogus, but I'm
> also going to try to try harder with my own writing now; for years I've been
> lazy, and often relied on the no-longer-available-excuse that there was no
> point in struggling so much with my writing because DFW says everything I
> want to say, only far better.  Maybe if each of us, in our own ways, tries a
> bit harder to live as DFW suggested, there would at least be an epilogue
> that would mitigate this gut-wrenching feeling we have now that we've
> reached the end of this tragic story.
> On Sep 15, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Joe Nickerson wrote:
>
> I have taken quite a bit of consolation from each and every post – however,
> am I alone in feeling deeply, deeply disturbed and bone-marrow-deep
> depressed and despondent?
>
>
>
> Aside from family members, I have never felt such sorrow related to the
> death of someone I did not personally know – though, perhaps that is not
> entirely accurate. Given the depth of emotion and human decency David often
> shared, and the extent to which I often live in my own head, on some level,
> I perhaps had a deeper, more intimate relationship with Wallace than I had
> or have with friends and family – both living and deceased.
>
>
>
> It is with a profound sense of sadness for David, as both a person and a
> writer, that I feel safe in stating we may never see the likes of him again
> – at least not within my lifetime. People like him, folks who seem to posses
> a preternatural ability to look at life and see through the bullshit, don't
> come around too often - and what's worse, they appear to be leaving this
> planet at an ever-increasing pace. Wallace was (and is) my Twain, that
> terrifyingly gifted writer and thinker whose novel's and essay's contain,
> within, the promise of redemption.
>
> Ugh -
>
> joe
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