David Foster Wallace

[Levin]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

If he was self-absorbed, and his writing also so, there was nothing about his life's depiction that argued his actions were not also so.

You want to show an entire generation out of the wilderness? Try moving your own two GD feet first.

We're involved in a semantic game now, which as you say, is utterly boring. I now realize we agree. You're not saying Wallace needed more experience, just to change his self-absorbed worldview. Depressed and bipolar people don't need more life experience -- they need less experience and rest to their souls.