some excerpts

Jane 2022-04-22 07:01:47

Neither of us knows where our lives are going to go.
It smells like chewing tobacco, soda and smoke.
And the conversation is the best one I ever had.
David thought books exsited to stop you from feeling lonely.
If I could, I' d say to David that living those days with him
reminded me of what life is like, instead of being a relief
from it. And I'd t ell him it made me feel much less alone.

This is nice, but is not real.

Feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false
and there was actually nothing.
And that you were nothing.
And that it's all a delusion.
And you're so much better than everybody.
Cause you can see how this is just a delusion.
And you're so much worse because you can't fucking function
It's really horrible.

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  • Sam 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    Gide said: "You will never know how much effort we have put in to make ourselves interested in life." The brief encounters wonderfully revealed Foster's loneliness, fear of the emptiness of life, and anxiety about life. The conversation is long and trivial, but the sincerity that suddenly appears will make people move deeply and can't help but feel sad. Foster once gave a speech about facing trivial life, about facing life, he finally chose another path.

  • Marianna 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Hit hard by the last "We are both so young. He wants something better than he has. I want precisely what he has already." The reporter wanted to have as much material as possible, and the interviewee was always worried about misunderstanding and understanding, resonance and suspicion, with an invisible media (a tape recorder) in between. It is rare to meet a few people of the same kind in a lifetime, and the final disappointment makes people infatuated.

The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Foster Wallace: It's so much easier having dogs.

    David Lipsky: Ha, ha - I'm sure.

    David Foster Wallace: I mean, yes, you don't get laid, but you don't have that feeling, like you're hurting their feelings, all the time.

    David Lipsky: Right, right.

    David Foster Wallace: I'd like to emphasise strictly platonic relationship with the dogs.

    David Lipsky: He he; I'll make sure I'll highlight it in the article, sure.

  • David Lipsky: Do you wanna have kids?...

    David Foster Wallace: Yeah, I think that writing books is a little like raising children, y'know -you have to be careful; mm; it's ok to take pride in the work, but I think it's bad for someone to want the glory to reflect back on you.

    David Lipsky: I mean, sounds like you're worried about having children.

    David Foster Wallace: I'm not wanna say anymore about that - if that's ok?