September 12, 2011 at 10:30 David Foster Wallace died today. Peter Knox has pulled some great pieces together. You can go there and see them. I reproduce here only a few I don't want to forget.
Incarnations of Burned Children
August 31, 2011 at 16:44 First week of teaching and the first night of Public Health Law. Tonight's lecture is on history of public health and the state with discussion of the Public Health Service. PHS has been in the news lately with its brutal studies of STDs on Guatemalans without their consent. Some Guatemalan officials are referring to it as genocide. Apparently the lead researcher knew he was in trouble and tried to keep research secret.
May 16, 2011 at 12:00 “…you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life “OK” as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning it does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.”
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
May 2, 2011 at 12:00 “One of the weepers was nearly skirling, an inhuman keeing sound.”
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
