Sep. 15th, 2008

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Very sad news that I read this weekend about the suicide of David Foster Wallace. On Brunchma, [livejournal.com profile] ticket_monkey pointed us towards this speech, the commencement address that DFW gave to students at Kenyon University in 2005.

It's also one year since Colin McRae died. Someone with a completely different set of achievements, of course. I didn't intend to compare them: it just so happens that the two losses are in the same post. I guess we can say that someone can give us something by a life's work of doing as well as a life's work of thinking and writing; if we feel like making a habit of pointless truisms, that is.

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