My 8 Favorite David Foster Wallace Quotes
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Well, it was going to come eventually: an entirely David Foster Wallace-themed video. In this one, Ryan accidentally gives you an inside look at his chronic case of DFW-fangirl-itis. Also, he reveals some major wisdom by talking about his 8 favorite DFW quotes.
DFW's 2005 Commencement Speech to Kenyon College entitled "This Is Water":
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The one Thing, that really hooks me about David Foster Wallace is "The Search for the Truth"
Its fascinating. That he was such a Genius and good Writer made his thoughts accessible for us.
Such an inspiring Person. I regard myself as truthseeker too, getting my mind blown regulary by his thoughts, because he was going soo deep into it.
I´d love to speak to him...I´d ask him if he thinks that consciousness and Love make people unhappy, because of our egomaniac and destructive, unempathatic western or global society, that has allready been brainwashed and destroyed on a deep level in mind.
Because that´s also a think that I struggle with, I think it might have been a big issue for him too.
I got to read more of him.
His commencement speech was just legendary. RIP DFW
+Riceaxe RIP indeed! Thanks for your comment!
Read Infinite Jest about a month and a half ago, and it was really good. Difficult throughout most of the novel, but worth reading.
DFW's essays... I could read them over and over again, even when they were about things I had no interest in. People are always scared off by his footnotes, but they are bonus material IMO. I almost never "got" his fiction, but his essays are treasured gems. BTW can anyone explain "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR" to me?
Maybe it means if the account representative is on the phone how can CPR help me through a phone? So luckily is sarcastic.
Loved this video, most likely because I'm infatuated by quotes of any sort, said by anyone. I can't even begin to pick which was the most profound for me, maybe the quote on art for reasons you know, but I really pondered on "of having had, and lost, some infinite thing." The idea of some "infinite thing" ...that's pretty damn brilliant to follow with some "thing" after a matter so "infinite."
PS- love the pet duck. Hope he/she has a name...
My uncle graduated Kenyon in 2004 and I went to the graduation. So he was one year too young for him, and myself, to be able to hear David Foster Wallace's commencement speech live.
***** holy crow... I'm just thanking my lucky stars that DFW (and myself) lived in an age when his thoughts and voice could be recorded and stored and re-watched for as long as humans continue to exist... haha.
Wonderful! I'm reading IJ again, and have read lots of other DFW. I'm smitten, too! Thanks for sharing your favorite quotes. Many of them are my faves too.
+Melissa Holton I'm thinking of getting through IJ again this summer (i read it last summer) and "smitten" is a good word for what I feel :)
great video! also, love all your book reviews. they get me psyched to read!
Highly recommend, if you havent purchased already, David Foster Wallace, In His Own Words CD box set. It's awesome listening to him read his own work
Hi Ryan,
I stumbled across this video because I so much fell in love with DFW (not Dallas Fort Worth)'s commencement speech, and was looking it up, and there you were. I like this post, and wanted to let you know.
I'm jason armstrong, and I appreciate people who pay attention. So, thanks!
+explodedview thank you Jason! :) I'm glad you found the video!
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Hey! Where does the quote at 2:00 come from? The 'Fiction is one of the few experiences...' one. Thanks!
Thanks for this video, mate. I only discovered DFW last year (don't know how he managed to elude me for so long) and am a total fan boy now... I guess you're not too different!? Have you tackled the Jest yet?
Castorp79 I actually read all of his short fiction first (he had always been kind of lurking in the back of my mind... then I became obsessed). Funny you ask, I'm about 15 pages away from finishing Infinite Jest after a summer of reading it :) and I'll have a video up on it soon on the channel! What have you read?
ForTheLoveOfRyan Hey man, really looking forward to that video on IJ!
I'm generally not too crazy about postmodern fiction but a friend insisted that I give him a try... so I started with the essays (Supposedly Fun + the Lobster) and was, of course, totally blown away. So then last summer I read IJ and the experience was earth-shattering; the memories of having these prolonged laugh-out-loud moments when reading in public and getting weird stares, priceless... it was as if a relationship had ended when I finished it and it took me a while to get over the pain of not living in that crazy book anymore. If I said it was the best book I ever read all my other favourite books would become all sad, but so I'll say it's definitely in the top 5.
I'm on the short fiction now... Oblivion. "Good Old Neon" just took my breath away.
Oh how I love that guy and his crazy diamond mind.
Really keen to know about your reactions.
Castorp79 You're in luck... my video on Infinite Jest is coming out in T-minus 6 hours! hahaha great timing. I kinda have to avoid going super in-depth in that video (don't want to spoil it for anyone) but I think if you watch it we'll still have plenty to talk about, so leave me a comment once that video airs and we'll discuss all kinds of things :) *wrings hands deviously like a super-villain and starts to cackle*.
I'm SO glad you're loving Oblivion and "Good Old Neon". That story in particular and collection in general blew me away... you'll have to especially let me know what you think about "Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way" because I have very strong feelings about that story... I've read it three times and written a long report on it and still can't really wrap my head around it. Keep up the DFW fanboying :)
How about your favorite quotes from FIGHT CLUB? and ATLAS SHRUGGED? DOWN and OUT in PARIS and LONDON? or KEEP the ASPIDISTRA FLYING? P.S. Do you like fried frog legs?
Good collection of quotes!
The last quote 😍
+Elisha Davis it's one of my favorites too :)
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