wallace-l: Thank You

[adrienne]

i'd like to chime in with my thanks to everyone on this list, too; i knew
you all were awesome, but wow, you really are all awesome.

you've articulately exteriorized my interior, just like dfw has always been
able to do.

i'm 100% in for a group read, i joined the list at the end of the last one
and was sad to have missed out.

thanks, and keep it up; you're all being heard.

love,
adrienne

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM, George Carr <georgecarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been frankly surprised that DFW's work was so emotionally
> affecting to so many.  I suppose I was subconsciously aware that his
> books did well commercially, but it never occurred to me that all of
> those hundreds of thousands of readers -- not to mention the dozens of
> writers, columnists, and bloggers whose commentary I've read in just
> the past two days -- had reactions to DFW's work very similar to mine.
>  Reading a book is solitary work in the first place, and discussing it
> with a group of friends or colleagues can reveal similarities in
> reaction by readers of very different backgrounds.  But reading how so
> many people cried at work over the death of someone they never met,
> how so many people felt that DFW was reaching directly into THEIR
> souls and speaking in the language they spoke to themselves, how so
> many people felt uplifted and honored by Dave's big project to make
> fiction writing a source of honesty and compassion and relevance ...
> it's kind of startling to me.  So for me, it's kind of simultaneously
> uplifting and disappointing at the same time, that my particular form
> of grief is so widely shared.  Which, as one might expect, was already
> prefigured by DFW, who thought very hard and wrote very well about the
> peculiar sensations associated with discovering that one is not nearly
> as unique, in background or experience, as one previously thought.
>
> George
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca>
> wrote:
> > Jon May wrote:
> >
> >> So how dare I? Who am I to
> >> get upset? I'm just some fanboy
> >
> > The phenomenon I'm trying to analyze renders me somewhat incapable of
> > analysis. I had thought it was my long involvement with wallace-l and
> > the friends I have made through it, but I have been reading of similar
> > reactions in people who have never heard of wallace-l. There may be a
> > parallel in what DFW said about AA in IJ and elsewhere, what he said in
> > the Kenyon address, and his general feeling that there could be too much
> > irony and too much distance, even as he sought to wield those tools in
> > moderation.
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