Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between di...
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.
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Big red son -- Certainly the end of something or other, one would sort of have to think -- Some remarks on Kafka's funniness from which probably not enough has been removed -- Authority and American usage -- The view from Mrs. Thompson's -- How Tracy Austin broke my heart -- Up, Simba -- Consider the lobster -- Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky -- Host.
Big red son -- Certainly the end of something or other, one would sort of have to think -- Some remarks on Kafka's funniness from which probably not enough has been removed -- Authority and American usage -- The view from Mrs. Thompson's -- How Tracy Austin broke my heart -- Up, Simba -- Consider the lobster -- Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky -- Host.
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...I will confess that I even borrowed a friend's battered leather jacket to wear on the Trail so I'd better project the kind of edgy, vaguely dangerous vibe I imagined an RS (Rolling Stone) reporter ought to give off.. (查看原文)
As you might already have gathered, Rolling Stone dislikes the 12M intensely, for all the above reasons, plus the fact that they're tight as the bark on a tree when it comes to sharing even very basic general-knowledge political information that might help somebody write a slightly better article, plus the issue of two separate occasions at late-night hotel check-ins when one or more of the Twelve Monkeys just out nowhere turned and handed Rolling Stone their suitcase to carry, as if Rolling Stone were a bellboy or gofer instead of a hardworking journalist just them even if he didn't have a portable Paul Stuart steamer for his slacks. (查看原文)
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what mi...
2020-02-09 22:15
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what might happen in Max Hardcore’s hotel room.
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
2020-02-09 21:43
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
2018-08-10 15:38
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
读到"vaguely dangerous"一下子被逗乐了。DFW这也算轻黑了一把摇滚党吧（当然可以看出他自己是非常亲近滚石所代表青年文化的）: ...I will confess that I even borrowed a friend's battered leather jacket to wear on the Trail so I'd better project the kind of edgy, vaguely dangerous vibe I imagined an RS (Rolling Stone) reporter ought to give off.. 170页当写到自己被十二猴子（指代十二个大媒体的前线记者）当...
...I will confess that I even borrowed a friend's battered leather jacket to wear on the Trail so I'd better project the kind of edgy, vaguely dangerous vibe I imagined an RS (Rolling Stone) reporter ought to give off..引自 Up, Simba
As you might already have gathered, Rolling Stone dislikes the 12M intensely, for all the above reasons, plus the fact that they're tight as the bark on a tree when it comes to sharing even very basic general-knowledge political information that might help somebody write a slightly better article, plus the issue of two separate occasions at late-night hotel check-ins when one or more of the Twelve Monkeys just out nowhere turned and handed Rolling Stone their suitcase to carry, as if Rolling Stone were a bellboy or gofer instead of a hardworking journalist just them even if he didn't have a portable Paul Stuart steamer for his slacks.引自 Up, Simba
书以外我还听过一个关于DFW和滚石的段子：David Lipsky (滚石记者，电影《旅途终点》的原著作者）上节目被问到当年滚石作为一个摇滚乐杂志，为什么要破天荒地要去采访一个作家（要知道那时候滚石已经十年没采访作家了）。他回答说DFW当年发表《无尽玩笑》引起轰动吼，他老板就人肉了一下DFW的照片，结果一看照片上这货系着头巾，一脸嚣张的样子，一拍桌子：他是我们一伙的！（"He's one of us!")
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what mi...
2020-02-09 22:15
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what might happen in Max Hardcore’s hotel room.
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
2020-02-09 21:43
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
2018-08-10 15:38
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what mi...
2020-02-09 22:15
Because porn films’ worlds are so sexualized, with everybody seemingly teetering right on the edge of coitus all the time and it taking only the slightest nudge or excuse — a stalled elevator, an unlocked door, a cocked eyebrow, a firm hand- shake — to send everyone tumbling into a tangled mass of limbs and orifices, there’s a bizarre unconscious expectation/dread/ hope that this is what might happen in Max Hardcore’s hotel room.
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
2020-02-09 21:43
To have seen these strangers’ faces in orgasm — that most unguarded and purely neu- ral of expressions, the one so vulnerable that for centuries you basically had to marry a person to get to see it.
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
2018-08-10 15:38
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
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1 有用 大体无害 2018-03-11
读DFW的时候，可以体验做一个天才的感觉。Amazon上的有声书是他自己录的，声音特别温柔，已经听了657遍。最喜欢How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart。
0 有用 bunnie 2019-10-26
2019.9-10 | presumably ahead of his time indisputably timeless
3 有用 听说 2013-08-26
真的好爱david wallace！！！天妒英才啊TAT
0 有用 oh clementine 2019-06-06
讲毛片那篇笑到不行！美国文学爱好者不读Wallace可视为失职，这本除了极其微妙的幽默感以外文学批评视角也可圈可点，就很想打开作者脑壳看看到底咋长的。
0 有用 ▩ 2015-04-21
喜欢龙虾和九一一两篇
0 有用 小李 2020-05-18
生涯后期的DFW写的太压抑了，像那种工业县城雾霾下的阳光那种哪怕明媚也让人喘不过气来。
0 有用 赤木晴子 2020-05-13
有趣 听了DFW自己念的有声书
0 有用 塑料 2020-03-03
越來越愛他⋯比誰都痛恨後現代人，卻比誰都渴望成為人
0 有用 aaagine 2019-11-07
值得重读
0 有用 bunnie 2019-10-26
2019.9-10 | presumably ahead of his time indisputably timeless