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8 years, 9 months ago

Joelle intentionally did lines of cocaine

Joelle'd felt half-crazed. She could detect nothing fake about the lady's grace and cheer toward her, the goodwill. And at the same time felt sure in her guts' pit that the woman could have sat there and cut out Joelle's pancreas and thymus and minced them and prepared sweetbreads and eaten them ch…

—p.747 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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8 years, 9 months ago

people who leap from burning windows topic/depression

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certai…

—p.696 by David Foster Wallace
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8 years, 9 months ago

some ability to transcend the goal topic/ambition

'But perhaps one does attain this, to win. Imagine you. You become just what you have given your life to be. Not merely very good but the best. The good philosophy of here and Schtitt — I believe this philosophy of Enfield is more Canadian than American, so you may see I have prejudice — is that yo…

—p.680 by David Foster Wallace
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one Subject is never enough project/rink-story

(This is why, maybe, one Subject is never enough, why hand after hand must descend to pull him back from the endless fall. For were there for him just one, now, special and only, the One would be not he or she but what was between them, the obliterating trinity of You and I into We. Orin felt that …

—p.566 by David Foster Wallace
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there's serious pain in being sober

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is…

—p.445 by David Foster Wallace