#davidfosterwallace

[lascopadelsistema]

[iatls]

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

[backpacksnstuff]

I finished THE BOOK! I hadn’t read any reviews or guide books, online debates about “what the author meant” before I started, and I believe this is how it should be read, so you’ll find no spoilers here. Also, THE BOOK wants to be read slowly (you’ll thank me later😉). DFW wanted the story to be sad and it truly is but also fun and entertaining and you don’t want to stop reading it. I absolutely understand people who finish THE BOOK and then immediately start it over again. The book about addiction (among other things) turns out to be very addictive 🙃 I didn’t start it over again (though I will, in the future) but I can’t stop thinking about it, reliving it, reflecting on the beginning and the ending; I miss the characters, too 😭 Strange and unique experience…I wish it hadn’t ended. #bookstagram #instabooks #instabookstagram #whattoread #whattoreadnext #whatimreading #postmodernliterature #postmodernism #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #mustread #mustreadbooks #americanliterature #americanauthors (at Tallinn, Estonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQy-No3LtR1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alchemisoul]

"We don’t know who discovered water but we are pretty sure it wasn’t a fish!” We are all in this position, being surrounded by some environment or element that blinds us totally".

- Marshall McLuhan

"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water?'....

...It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:

"This is water."

"This is water".

- David Foster Wallace

[ancheoggisidormedomani]

Storie di ingiustizia, storie d'America, racconti dagli anni Sessanta. Un mix di nuovi arrivi :) . . . www.seunanottedinvernounlibro.it #libro #libri #libreriaonline #libreria #book #books #bookstagram #seunanottedinvernounlibro #instabook #instabooks #bookshop #bookpride #letteratura #libriusati #librirari #minimumfax #aldamerini #leonardosciascia #davidfosterwallace #daveeggers #georgesaunders #jonathanlethem https://www.instagram.com/p/BzlKvc8IQGh/?igshid=6hegsizuwwb9

[maraplath]

"Il mio problema di fondo, ha detto, era la bella trappolina che mi ero costruita per essere sicura di non dover mai crescere e di restare immatura ad aspettare per sempre che qualcuno mi salvasse perché non sarei mai stata capace di scoprire che nessuno poteva salvarmi perché mi ero messa nell'impossibilità di ottenere quello che ero tanto convinta di volere è di meritare, così avrei potuto essere sempre arrabbiata e avrei sempre potuto andare in giro pensando che il mio vero problema fosse che nessuno sapeva vedermi o amarmi come volevo per quella che ero perciò avrei sempre avuto il mio bravo problema da mettere seduto, abbracciare e accarezzare fingendo di credere che fosse il vero problema."

David Foster Wallace, Il Re Pallido

[heckyeahmovie]

It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function. - The End of the Tour (2015)

[sarah--adel]