Please don't be me

Anthony 2022-01-17 08:01:22

The development of the close and contradictory relationship between reporters and writers during their road trip is really fascinating.
Between them are the interviewer and the interviewee, that is, the spy and the narrator, the reader and the writer, and the writer and the writer.
So the feelings of both sides towards each other are very complicated.
As a reporter, I am eager to be you, the successful best-selling author popular with thousands of people, but I also understand that the secret of your success comes from pain, that charming heartbreaking loneliness and pain.
Why don't the writers also envy reporters. He is handsome, eloquent and good at socializing, so he won't be overwhelmed by sensitive pain.
So the reporter finally broke out in anger. Anyone who has low self-esteem will explode in such anger when they are pointed out that they are ordinary people.
That's why the writer confessed to him so much in the middle of the night. My creation stems from the pain that I cannot be saved, and that pain that may swallow me again at any time.
That's why the writer said to the reporter at the end, you don't want to be me.
Both of them have the same loneliness and low self-esteem in their bones, so you will be touched by me.
But please don't be me.

I was so touched by the details of the reporter who left tears after listening to the author's self-analysis late at night.
There is only a thin line between us. The reason why we manage this sensitive relationship so carefully is because we are too afraid that such emotions will explode.
Because any real soul confession is the blood drained from the heart by the scalpel.
And people who can resonate with you, when they hear your soul confession, why not endure the same pain as you.

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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?