RIP - David Foster Wallace

[Richard Ryan]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/09/rip-david-foste.html


--- On Sat, 9/13/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: FW: wallace-l: DFW suicide?
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 9:36 PM
> Really, really too bad.
> 
> On the other hand, the final pages of "Infinite
> Jest" left me feeling just like I did when I heard
> Shostakovich's fifteenth quartet, absolutely in the
> presence of death. How a man could live with that, I
> don't know. I do what I can to stay jolly knowing full
> well that the world is insane.
> 
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14,0,7461856.story