archives for Monday 15 September 2008
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Monday 15 September 2008 | someone left a cookie
It’s impossible to resist the idea that the fictional Neal’s motivations in ending his life—he regards himself as utterly “calculating” and “fraudulent”—were Wallace’s own, but such conclusions would only have multiplied the author’s despair.
Wallace believed, I think, that one way out of Neal’s labyrinthine artificiality, out of his preoccupation with selling “a certain image” of […]
