wallace-l: DFW suicide?

[David Casseres]

I hated Infinite Jest, despite wanting to like it.  But it displayed  
unmistakable brilliance and originality, and I dearly wish DFW had  
lived to write something else, using the same resources.


On Sep 13, 2008, at 7:13 PM, JD wrote:

> 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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