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9 years, 1 month 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 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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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
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weird, weird, weird

[...] And yet whenever I'd look in the mirror. there it would be, and I could always feel the heat of the blood on my cheek, and when I'd feel with my hand my fingers would sink in there really deep into what felt like hot gelatin with bones and ropes and stuff in it. And it seemed like everyone wa…

—p.6 The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing (5) by David Foster Wallace
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I really don't wish to say a whole lot

Antidepressants were prescribed for me by a very nice doctor named Dr. Kablumbus at a hospital to which I was sent ever so briefly following a really highly ridiculous incident involving electrical appliances in the bathtub about which I really don't wish to say a whole lot. [...]

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