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Keith is a 23-year-old would-be writer, blogger, musician, and wannabe cultural critic. All Things That Are Good is his personal blog. More »
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Tag Archives: David Foster Wallace
“I feel unalone”
It doesn’t happen all the time. It’s these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I’m in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don’t with other art. David Foster Wallace On [...]
Finite Summer
“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.” Infinite Summer ended yesterday. I didn’t make it. But that doesn’t mean I’m finished. Photo and quote from here.
Modern Survival
For at least 10 years before his death, Wallace was working on a long novel that he called The Pale King. Set in a branch of the US Internal Revenue Service, it aimed to articulate the hard-won thesis of mindfulness that Wallace had come to after years of depression and treatment: “Bliss—a second-by-second joy and [...]
Tourism
Over the next few days/weeks, it’s possible I’ll be including here little stories or anecdotes about my time in Rome. I’d prefer not to write out some lengthy spiel about the experience, because I’d probably forget a lot of it and it would likely just end up being some boring ramble. In lieu of that, [...]
Default
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default [...]
Dullness