Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace reports on a luxury cruise experience.
Here is a link to the article: harpers.org/wp-content/uploads...
You can find other David Foster Wallace essays here: www.openculture.com/2012/02/2...
You can check out my other essay reading of 'Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes' here: • Tennis, Trigonometry, ...
I will be honest and say it's not very good, as I'm still working on my narrating technique and editing, and my recording quality is not great.
There will definitely be variations in the quality of audio throughout, but I hope some of it can be enjoyed nonetheless.
Please like & subscribe if you enjoyed! Thanks :)

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@Pallettown 3 года назад

Thanks for listening! Let me know what you would like to hear next.

@Pallettown 2 года назад

@Río Rodríguez I really enjoy that one! Maybe I could do some sections from it. Thanks!!!

@Pallettown 2 года назад

@Kirill Riabtsev Thanks for listening. That looks like an interesting one and I would definitely like to do stories like these. It is on the long side so it may need to wait for a better time, or I could consider reading an excerpt or a shorter version of the story.

@divinegon4671 3 года назад

I just pictured DFW in a conga line

@_alicia__ 3 года назад

SAME

@pod9363 2 года назад

That image makes me so happy! 🥰

@Spudcore 2 года назад

Quite the mental image :D

@jasonlawson01 Год назад

Yup...me too. Really cheers me up. Pleased I'm not alone😊

@Gary_Seanfield 11 месяцев назад

Your voice lends itself exceedingly well to narration of DFW's prose. You also seem to have an affinity for discerning the way he would have read it aloud (the way you place emphasis, narrate the lists, perform the intonations needed for enhanced comedic effect etc). All in all, your intuition for DFW informs me that you've read and appreciated his work at least as much as i have. Thank you for this.

@Pallettown 11 месяцев назад

Thank you 🙏 Thanks for listening!

@pod9363 2 года назад

Used to think I was just cynical for noticing things like this. But it’s real.

@nathanbranson9149 3 года назад

First of all, thank you for doing this. I love putting on DFW interviews for background noise. If you are taking requests, I'd like to hear "E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction." I'm trying to get all my friends to read it.

@Pallettown 3 года назад

Sure thing! That's an interesting one. I'm planning on working my way through a number of his other essays, so stay tuned!!!

@Pallettown 3 года назад

Just uploaded ‘E Unibus Pluram’, thanks for the suggestion!

@aaa5717 2 года назад

I just want to thank you for helping me through quite a few sleepless nights with your recordings of these timeless DFW works. Thanks a lot, wishing others wouldn't suffer from sleep problems as much.

@amaliamaria1553 2 года назад

LIFESAVER!! I love listening to my assigned readings before going over them and reading/annotating them for myself. Thank you !!

@Poppycockify Год назад

Such a funny essay. Thanks for sharing-you do great reads of DFW

@Pallettown Год назад

Thanks I appreciate it

@ShawnDCrabtree 2 месяца назад

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I have briefly joined a conga line. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

@bathwindow Год назад

Thank you very much for reading and sharing this and the other DFW works. Highly appreciated.

@iiSwiizZii 3 года назад

This is great, thank you for narrating this

@Pallettown 3 года назад

No problem!

@joeyrufo 2 года назад

This is pretty good. You even sound sort of like him! Of course, I can tell you're Canadian. In the states, we tend to pronounce "been" more like "bin," and we say "skedule" and "skeem"

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Good catch!

@Spudcore 2 года назад

Point of pedantry: Pince-nez is pronounced "pants nay". Really :D omg that bit about the middle-aged women screaming before they laugh makes me think of when my mother would have all my aunties over, and I would be upstairs in bed, wide awake, bemusedly listening to them scream-laughing. AAAH-Ha-ha-ha-haaa Jayziz Celia that's gas! Footnote #20 might just be the funniest thing ever written.

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Thank you!

@petertomasi7587 3 года назад

This is Excellent-- thank you!!!

@Pallettown 3 года назад

My pleasure!

@cherisebauguss6966 3 года назад

Just getting into this man! Wow!

@february690 Год назад

This is great. Thank you.

@Pallettown Год назад

My pleasure

@tastecreativity129 3 года назад

Amazing read!

@Pallettown 3 года назад

Thank you!

@gp8699 2 года назад

Thank you!

@NASkeywest Год назад

You will be happy and enjoy yourself, despite of yourself. Is what I want in a vacation.

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Wow 10k views!!!

@selvmordspilot 3 года назад

Really good job with this. Is 'shipping out' an alternate title to 'a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' ?

@Pallettown 3 года назад

It looks like it was originally published as 'Shipping Out' in 1996, but in the collection of essays 'A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' published in 1997, the essay and the collection share the same name.

@ckwind1971 2 года назад

Excellent job. Thank you. I can't resist pointing out that "conch" is pronounced conk.

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Thanks I appreciate it!

@ckwind1971 2 года назад

@@Pallettown you're welcome. Since I am still listening, I have another comment. The abbreviation etc. is short for et cetera. Therefore when you come across it, you say "et cetera" (not the letters ETC). Blessings ♾️

@michaelgullo9039 2 года назад

Why don’t you just shut up and listen.

@Tylerdavasel 3 года назад

Yes, you sound just almost like DFW himself, but it would be nice to know when an endnote begins each time.

@Pallettown 3 года назад

Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind for my next read.

@63chicago6 8 месяцев назад

Great job reading this. Btw what's up with the music that fades in during footnote 20 around 1:04:00? It made me bust out laughing when it came in over what David wallace was describing 😂

@Pallettown 8 месяцев назад

Haha I guess I was just trying to add a bit of Tex-Mex flair 🤣. Thanks for listening!

@duewhit310 2 года назад

You kinda sound like him

@KrisM189 3 года назад

I think you read well. This Essay sounds great.

@Pallettown 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@ophello 2 года назад

The “bow” of a ship rhymes with “cow,” not “mow.”

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Thanks!

@dwanderful1 3 года назад

Seems more like a short story than an essay was fun and now i dont need to take a cruise yay

@YodasPapa 2 года назад

"Nadir" is pronounced nad-ear. In the UK, "christening" is all short vowel sounds, I don't know about US/Canada.

@Pallettown 2 года назад

Thank you!

@jasonlawson01 Год назад

Sorry, but what time is the midnight buffet?! Worked up quite an appetite with all this conga dancing. 😂 Soul is not a Smithy next please. Or anything from Oblivion really. Cheers 👍

@johnwalters1207 2 года назад

Petras a boss

@nathanbuck7572 5 дней назад

Bukoski

@shreyaroka1551 3 года назад

This actually sounds like dfw himself

@aliciabartolotta3176 Год назад

14:03

@armoredspaz 2 года назад

52:40

@NASkeywest Год назад

I am very sad, and SO MAD, that DFW took his own life. He had so much to offer the world. So much we missed out on because existing was just to painful. I know that if he would’ve sought help and just held on he would’ve made it and become content! Imagine seeing DFW on The Joe Rogan podcast!

@Pallettown Год назад

Oh man that would be incredible

@jenniferv 2 года назад

I wish this was louder

@jenniferv 2 года назад

Haha all the loud youtubes have me overly pampered (I was listening to this in a very loud truck though). Interesting how easily we get dissatisfied. Thanks for doing this!

@PhillyCYOSports Год назад

The footnotes ruin it

@jackhammond0408 3 года назад

I run a Wallace quotes twitter page for fun and so many from this one have appeared. The shushing, the thighmaster, the silver lame in a glass elevator. @dfwquotes if you're interested