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For DFW
This post will be full of typos and rhetorical slips and just generally bad writing. I’m just gonna write and post and I won’t bother editing. Sorry. This morning, after BLTs with wife and child I...
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Ernest Hemingway’s Suicide Gun
Garden & Gun ran a short piece on Ernest Hemingway’s guns last year, and linked to a slideshow of the famous author (who killed himself 50 years ago today) with his guns. From the article— When...
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Chris Ware on DFW’s Novel The Pale King
Crippled Robot painting by Chris Ware Cartoonist/graphic novelist/chronicler of shame and despair Chris Ware wrote about his favorite books for Foyles bookstore. The list includes Ulysses, Moby-Dick,...
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Suicide as a National Folk Art (Thomas Bernhard’s Correction)
Suicide, Luc Tymans In this passage from Thomas Bernhard’s Correction we can see the strange, bleak, black humor that characterizes the novel: It’s a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always...
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“Montparnasse”— Ernest Hemingway
Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, Microfiction, Montparnasse, shorties, Suicide
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Grave of a Suicide Victim — Wilhelm Kotarbinski
Tagged: Art, Suicide, Wilhelm Kotarbinski
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A Riff on Thomas Bernhard’s Novel The Loser
1. I finished Thomas Bernhard’s 1983 novel The Loser (English transl. Jack Dawson ’91) a few weeks ago and then picked over some of it again this week. I’m not going to try to unpack all of The Loser...
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Another paradox (David Foster Wallace)
This is another paradox, that many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person’s life are ones that flash through your head so fast that fast isn’t even the right word, they seem totally...
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“A Sea of Troubles”— P.G. Wodehouse
“A Sea of Troubles” by P.G. Wodehouse Mr Meggs’s mind was made up. He was going to commit suicide. There had been moments, in the interval which had elapsed between the first inception of the idea and...
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Good Old “Good Old Neon” Essay (Not Actually Old But Actually Very New)
Today, the Los Angeles Review of Books published an insightful essay by Tim Peters about David Foster Wallace’s short story “Good Old Neon.” “Good Old Neon” is (in my estimation) Wallace’s finest...
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More Plant-like: Riffing on Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
We tend to pathologize the ultimate no—suicide—as a shameful failure, the worst kind of failure. The shame of not having assimilated into normative culture, of not bootstrapping the self into a legible...
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“Montparnasse”— Ernest Hemingway
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“The Right to Take Oneself Off,” an essay by Ambrose Bierce
“The Right to Take Oneself Off” by Ambrose Bierce A person who loses heart and hope through a personal bereavement is like a grain of sand on the seashore complaining that the tide has washed a...
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