Endnotes: David Foster Wallace

[rich]

we've all had our battles with the blue devils. far be it for me to
question the severity of anyone's bummer. speaking of having a nice
pinch of Pinch nearby while reading The Kindly Ones is probably a good
idea

DFW had alot of talent but I'm not sure he will ever be seen as
translating that talent into more than a cult figure following

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> April 15th! for some reason I was thinking September.  But April 15th
> is thematically suitable.
>
> However, I think I might try and read The Kindly Ones before TPK...I
> have TKO out of the library but wanted to read the rest of the smaller
> novels I have lying around before starting that...
>
>
> so his meds no longer worked for him and he went back to the same
> doctor, shoot, he had enough money he could have had every alternative
> therapy I've ever dreamed about trying...he could have had an orgone
> accumulator custom built, had high colonics, craniosacral, primal
> scream, lymph drainage therapy, chakra balancing, orthomolecular,
> homeopathy, yoga lessons -- they would have either worked or he could
> have written funny, perceptive stuff about them, either way I bet
> something would've helped
>
> instead he dug into the tax code for material (real cheerful stuff)
> and had doctor-loyalty...
>
> man he should have at least gotten a b12 shot, I hear those are invigorating!
> or even just a bike ride
>
> good writer, though...looking forward to TPK...RIP DFW
>
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> --
> "the life of a person is worth more than the history of a country" -
> Carlos Fuentes (_The Old Gringo_)
>