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9 years, 5 months ago

did he just try to bite the waiter

"Nobody's that hungry. And did he just try to bite the waiter? Was that an attempted bite?"

"Must be the light in here."

—p.86 The Broom of the System 6 (81) by David Foster Wallace
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a special relationship with Richard Nixon

[...] through the miracle of television, Vance Vigorous enjoyed a special relationship with Richard Nixon. As Watergate wore on in brilliant color, Vance took to furtive looks, pinched whiteness around the bridge of his nose, refusals to explain his whereabouts or give reasons for what he did. My t…

—p.76 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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he would urinate up onto my hanging necktie

[...] he would urinate up onto my hanging necktie, a pale, sweetly thin jet, and there would be smells of powder, and my tie would be heavy at my throat, and would drip, and we would laugh together, toothless he and sad, sleepy I, at my urine-soaked tie.

—p.75 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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always a language problem

[...] she studied classics and philosophy and who knows what else under a mad crackpot genius named Wittgenstein, who believed that everything was words. Really. If your car would not start, it was apparently to be understood as a language problem. If you were unable to love, you were lost in langu…

—p.73 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace
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ironic starvation

[...] I'll be murdered if he knows I told. I'll end up in a thousand jars of the whipped lamb, while the little Foamwhistles ironically starve.

—p.71 5 (57) by David Foster Wallace