DFW addendum

[Paul DiFilippo]

One final turnoff for me in IJ was the teenage Hal Incandenza,
a kind of Holden Caulfield on smart drugs.  As with so much
SF in general, teenage protagonists seem invariably to lower the
general level of discourse.  Why is DFW noodling around with 
prep-school students anyhow after so many years as something of
a prodigy himself?  It just strikes me as someho claustrophobic
and limiting and repetitive on his part, as if he were still
living out vicariously his own "glory days."
On another note, my provider is having a planned week of downtime,
so any lack of responses from my end should be seen as a dreadful
forced deprivation of conversation, never pique or fussiness!

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"I have almost nothing in common with myself"--Franz Kafka
"I do the best imitation of myself."  Ben Folds Five