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Gazoo

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RIP David Foster Wallace
« on: September 14, 2008, 06:54:55 PM »
The Infinite Jest author hanged himself this weekend, suggesting that jest is in fact finite.   :-[
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Re: RIP David Foster Wallace
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2008, 09:21:45 AM »
Quote from: Gazoo on September 14, 2008, 06:54:55 PM
The Infinite Jest author hanged himself this weekend, suggesting that jest is in fact finite.   :-[

A tribute from Jon Carrol:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/16/DDU012UC83.DTL

I may have to read something of his now that he's dead, and I'm between novels.
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