wallace-l: DFW suicide?

[Christina Wilson]

This passage has just gotten me all choked up again.  It's beautiful and so
fitting of our man, I think, and the way he might have parsed it out
himself.

#9 on Amazon.  It's about time.

-ciw

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Matt Bucher <mattbucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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