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Notes Dear Dave Wallace,Lately I haven’t been affording your work the attention it deserves because I am afraid to feel the flames again. Their absence leaves me feeling light and unreal. I miss the intensity with which they consumed me, but I won’t pretend not to know the consequences. I know I can’t move forward with my childish grief in tow. It’s time to find peace and clarity. There are all kinds of clarity too; different dimensions shifting in and out of focus. I want to choose the one that will give my life balance, so that I can make others in my life happy.
Wish me way more than luck.
All the best,
Ami
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Notesiamiamiam asked: Do you remember the quote by David Foster Wallace?
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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Notes David Foster Wallace: “Backbone” : The New YorkerAn excerpt of The Pale King has been posted over at The New Yorker.
DFW lives
His talent for transcribing so much truth within such fascinating fiction was incredible.
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"My guess is, the forms of rebellion that will end up changing anything meaningful here will be very quiet and very individual and probably not all that interesting to look at from the outside. I’m now hoping for less interesting rather than more interesting. Violence is interesting and horrible corruption and scandals and rattling sabers and talking about war and demonizing a billion people of a different faith in the world - those are all interesting. Sitting in a chair and really thinking about what this means and why the fact that what I drive might have something to do with how people in other parts of the world feel about me, isn’t interesting to anybody else."
David Foster Wallace
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Notes"No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home."David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (via: mianoti & ohnonotme)
(Source: queerlythere, via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Just spend 10 minutes doing this
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Posting this as a photoset. This man is incredible, I hope I can be like him someday :)
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my name is luna enriquez
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via dolliecrave
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