There’s always a Mormon around when you don’t want one, trying your patience with unsolicited kindness.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes its way’
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But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfaction is still way, way off, and it’s frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what’s going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world is pretty slow, at present, for kids our age. It probably gets less slow as you get older and more of the world is behind you, and less ahead, but very few people of our generation are going to find this exchange attractive, I’ll bet.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes its way’
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Mark Nechtr stares, slackly intense, at whatever he looks at. He doesn’t even seem sleep-deprived to Sternberg. Radiantly perfect fucker. Creepy stare, though. Has the look of somebody in the front row of a really absorbing show all the time.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes its way’
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She has an invisible irony filed cloaking her, which intercepts and destroys incoming attacks.
David Mitchell, Number9Dream
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One final, final, final cigarette before ‘nervous’ becomes ‘spineless’
David Mitchell, Number9Dream
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We pretend how it’s not happening, for dignity. She is inside the door of the train. She gets a seat alone, but facing away from where the train’s going, which I’m worried is bad for stomachs.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Say Never’
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Though even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Say Never’
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Whole periods of time now begin to feel to me like the intimate, agonizing interval between something’s falling off and its hitting the ground.
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Here and There’
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About everything there is an air of age, clocks running slow on sluggish current
David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair, ‘Here and There’
