FW: wallace-l: DFW suicide?

[JD]

This is sad.  I didn't like his writing much, but I feel that I may have to
give Infinite Jest at least another go.  In my estimation he failed, but to
co-opt a phrase, he failed better, and we need more like him.  Truly a loss.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:36 PM, <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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