David Foster Wallace: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Fuente: Infinite Jest

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays
Contexto: I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

Big Red Son, p. 9
Consider the Lobster (2007)
Contexto: Nor let us forget Vegas's synecdoche and beating heart. It's kitty-corner from Bally's: Caesar's Palace. The granddaddy. As big as 20 walmarts end to end. Real marble and fake marble, carpeting you can pass out on without contusion, 130,000 square feet of casion alone. Domed ceilings, clerestories, barrel vaults. In Caesars Palace is America conceived as a new kind of Rome: conqueror of its own people. An empire of self.

Fuente: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Fuente: Infinite Jest

Fuente: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Variante: The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.
Fuente: Oblivion

Fuente: Infinite Jest

Fuente: Infinite Jest

Fuente: The Pale King

Fuente: Infinite Jest

Fuente: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments