DFW

[DAVID ALAN BUUCK]

to be fair, david foster wallace uses the foster to delineate himself from
david rains wallace, nother writer...

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Murthy Yenamandra wrote:

> Dexter C. Palmer writes:
> > Hmmm. Does the list's willingness to abbreviate Wallace's name (as we
> > don't Gaddis's or DeLillo's, for example) indicate that he has
> > accomplished his clandestine mission of ingratiating himself amongst us as
> > a Pynchon wannabe, a half-assed doppelganger? Horrors! I agree with Max.
> > This must be stopped.
> 
> Well, for one, the guy insists on using his middle name, which we all
> know is just a pretension to grandiosity and an open invitation to
> acronymize.  David Wallace doesn't work and who wants to say David
> Foster Wallace all the time? So then why do we say TRP, even though he
> never uses his middle name?  Probably 'cause otherwise we'd have to
> shorten it to TP, which makes me think of Toilet Paper first (though
> it's a nice enough Slothropian link to Shit, Money, and the Word).
> 
> Murthy
> 
> -- 
> Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
> "Every heart/to love will come/but like a refugee" - Leonard Cohen
>