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David Foster Wallace Funeral

 

… sad, sad, sad. Not enough said. A funereal mood prevails over the day. “Irony and ridicule have become agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture”. -David Foster Wallace. If more had been said, would it still have been ‘not enough said’? Or would it have become ‘enough said’, which is a euphemism for ‘too much has been said’? Who knows why DFW did what he did, but in death, who can even ask such questions? Or rather, who, being dead, can conceive of who might ask such questions after one is dead?

Well enough, he will live on:

Chuang Tzu:

  • Lao Tan said, “Why dont you just make him see that life and death are the same story, that acceptable and unacceptable are on a single string? Wouldnt it be well to free him from his handcuffs and fetters?”
  • No-Toes said, “When Heaven has punished him, how can you set him free?”

September 13, 2008
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7 Responses to “David Foster Wallace Funeral”


  1. Jim T says:  

    Thank you for that Chuang Tzu. It is a sad day.

  2. Anon says:  

    Do you know if there will be a public funeral for DFW?

  3. geeg says:  

    RIP, dfw.

  4. AKA ak says:  

    Sorry, Anon, I dont know if there will be a public funeral. I know that while politicians and great statesmen often hold a public ceremonial, and while many people clearly feel the strong impact of his loss and the loss of those close to him, I generally prefer to leave all thoughts and ponderings of such things to those who shared his life independent of his status as an author. I would suggest that you find some small way to appreciate his perspective however you interpret it, in your own way.

  5. ellabella says:  

    sad, sad, sad. sad sad sad sad sad.

  6. luigi silvio says:  

    sorry my bad writing ,some years ago in italia was specially created for a publishing house tradurrre DFW, this because the Italian publisher believed imprenscindibile knowledge of the writings of DFW. and he was right…

  7. ao says:  

    we are all like his dogs left circling, bewildered and yapping.









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