[b]David Foster Wallace from Infinite Jest
The man who knows his limitations, has none.[/b]
If not out in the real world.
…loneliness is not a function of solitude.
Though, sure, for some, it can be.
…perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
Let’s think of examples.
I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.
Now that’s ironic.
I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?
Among other things, no.
When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.
What should it be called then?