[D.F. Wallace] Sure, you can go on and on about how you once interviewed him, and how he was your very favorite author--or how you became so after news of his death alerted you to his existence. But--excluding J. Gadette's succinct and well-placed outburst, which I fully support--all this literary hand-wringing doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy old world.At last, there's a powerful organization that's doing something about it.
(Brandon Burt)
I'm glad there was mention of it on Saltblog, wish there wasn't need of it. How about something about the writer himself? I am struck as dumb as anyone else. Anyone who wrote a novel as light and simultaneously weighty as Infinite Jest, it's no wonder his work overwhelms, demands to speak for itself. You might say, it's a shame he couldn't just see this life as nothing more than an 'Infinite Jest.' But then again, maybe that's why he did what he did.
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