David Foster Wallace on Literature 

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@@sneed8119 Thanks for feedback mate

When you grow up you'll realize that in addition to being a shitty person overall, he was really just a poor man's Thomas Pynchon.

Agreed.

Having esoteric interests separates you from the average person. It seems to be a very gregarious person you have to remain somewhat dull in the mind. It almost sucks to have something you love like that because you want to talk about it with someone, but no one understands or cares.

Uh - I remember reading it on one of Melville's pages, Ishmael was on top of a crow's nest and riffing about something or another... although phrased slightly different than that..."To make comfortable the uncomfortable and to make uncomfortable the comforted" 10 years late or w/e, but I'm fairly certain he remembers that impression and misdiagnosed where it originated in his memory.

@@meladar I can't find anything like that quote anywhere in the fulltext of Moby Dick: www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm -- I always believed the origin of the chiasmus phrase was by Finley Peter Dunne sometime in the late 19th century: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne -- "The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."

I just saw this somewhere. Bansky ripped it off I guess. As did Cesar Cruz. TWFM487•6 yr. ago Additional comment actions It's a variation of the well known phrase "Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable". That phrase is often quoted in a religious context, but it was first used by the author Finley Dunne, in the 1890s, to refer to the duty of newspapers to the people. The first reference to "disturbed" rather than "comfortable" was in 1997, quoting Cesar A. Cruz. TL;DR: Banksy didn't invent this quote. (This is from reddit. )

Woody Guthrie said “It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.” Maybe the author dfw is speaking about was quoting him…

don delillo

To me the love of reading is a spiritual force all its own.. If that force isn't drawing me to read just now, that's just fine. It always comes back around :)

Reading this post 3 years later has made me curious. If you don't mind sharing it on YT, what fiction have you been reading since then? I know it can be hard to find things you like to read. I tend to re-read my favourite books every six months, and somehow I always learn something new. Good books are multilayered and full of interesting ideas.

did you read it in these 9 years?

dodecachordal extispicium shut up dude