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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 7 months ago

on the planet Trillaphon

I've been on antidepressants for, what. about a year now, and I suppose I feel as if I'm pretty qualified to tell what they're like. They're fine, really, but they're fine in the same way that, say, living on another planet that was warm and comfortable and had food and fresh water would be fine: i…

—p.5 The David Foster Wallace Reader The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

a high-tension electric trill

[...] The new noise on my planet is kind of a high-tension electric trill. That's why for almost a year now I've somehow always gotten the name of my antidepressant wrong when I'm not looking right at the bottle: I've called it 'Trillaphon" instead of "Tofranil," because "Trillaphon" is more trilly…

—p.18 The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

the Bad Thing is really

The big question is whether the Bad Thing is on the planet Trillaphon. I don't know if it is or not. Maybe it has a harder time in a thinner and less nutritious atmosphere. I certainly do, in some respects. Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, a…

—p.19 The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

the Bad Thing is you

[...] This is the way the Bad Thing works: it's especially good at attacking your defense mechanisms. The way to fight against or get away from the Bad Thing is clearly just to think differently, to reason and argue with yourself, just to change the way you're perceiving and sensing and processing …

—p.12 The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace
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7 years, 7 months ago

there is no surface for you topic/depression

[...] A very glib guy on the television said some people liken it to being underwater, under a body of water that has no surface, at least for you, so that no matter what direction you go, there will only be more water, no fresh air and freedom of movement, just restriction and suffocation, and no …

—p.10 The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace