[b]David Foster Wallace from Infinite Jest
Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it/[/b]
I know: what if that was really true?
…it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
That and a damn good reason.
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly.
And haven’t I been saying that here for years? It’s not what you believe so much as that you believe it. Objectively for example.
Yes, I’m paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?
Like that’s even possible.
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
That makes two of us. At least.
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I’m so tired.
Just not anymore.