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Great sadness: DFW eliminated his own map!?

By ti

I just learned that David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, died Friday, apparently by his own hand. I don’t even have words. It’s just too sad. Other people have plenty of words though. A sample: From Laura Miller at Salon: However, all great writers — and I have no doubt that he was one — have a preeminent purpose: to tell the truth. David Foster Wallace’s particular vocation was to allow us to see just how fraught and complicated, how difficult yet how necessary, that telling had become — not just for him, but for all of us. What will we do without him? More at the Howling Fantods, and also here. I just can’t believe it.

Full post as published by The Imbroglio on September 14, 2008 (boomark / email).