Wallace

[rusty]

Well said, bandwraith. That is very much what I meant. From the outside,
his life seemed charmed, and for one who has rare, fleeting moments of
wishing he could be a writer, I was envious. I suppose being a
successful, young writer is less enjoyable as you get older. It is true
he had swagger, and I always felt, seeing a photograph of him, or
watching his interview with Charlie Rose, that he came across as
somewhat uncomfortable in his skin. And so I have never run to his
books, although, strangely, I had been poking around at them of late in
bookstores. (The works of TRP would be more worth my time, I decided.)
But it seems a loss, especially the way it ended, his finite gesture.

bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> "This is sad, perplexing news."
>
> There's no explaining suicide, especially in someone
> relatively young and apparently healthy- and
> especially in this culture. It's just, as Wallace might
> have said, a hideous discontinuity. It reminds me of how
> fragile and vulnerable we all are- no matter the swagger.
>
> Separate and alone- the price of freedom- but also,
> potentially receptive to miracles, secular or otherwise.
>
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