#213 Another Pioneer- David Foster Wallace

By now you should all know how much I love and admire the writing of David Foster Wallace. You’ve heard my gushing diatribes about the genius of these stories, so I will try not to over-hype this—any more than I already have, that is.

What begins as an off-hand description of a passenger’s surroundings aboard a commercial airline, turns into a 26-page running tangent. 26 pages—one paragraph! How very DFW. You either like this type of literary challenge or you don’t. I can picture DFW siting in the airplane himself letting his mind wander where it will, and him just writing down what goes through his mind. This is what came out. One flight, 26-pages, one paragraph, pure brilliance.

Word of the Day: Heuristic-enabling a person to learn or discover something for themselves (google dictionary)

Rating: Once again…Not Rate-able…it is unfair to compare DFW to anyone else. To do so I’d have to develop a whole new system.  He ruins the curve…so lets just say he gets a perfect score and move on. Do I sound biased here? Who cares, it’ds my blog and my rating system.