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‘the really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over every day. that is real freedom.’ continuing my tradition of starting off the new year with some words of reflection and perspective (see Leggi tutto

So much of the language I use everyday is centred around 'I'. I feel it too. I get you. I understand what you're going through. I. Me. Mine. Somewhere within these juxtapositions of the objective reality as it exists and my personal view of it, lies the fine line between empathy and self-obsession. I som Leggi tutto

Non c'è superficie Introdotti da un memorial speech di De Lillo e curati con postfazione da Luca Briasco, scritti tra il 1984 e il 1991, i cinque racconti qui raccolti gettano uno sguardo sullo stile e la personalità letteraria di David Foster Wallace. Il tema principale è l'amore nelle diverse decli Leggi tutto

This may come as a surprise to people who know me, but I never read this before it came out in book format. I knew it existed, but like most of the occasional and short pieces by DFW I held off on reading them. At the time his writing came out so infrequently, that I always wanted to have things of

...μικρή αναγνωστική μπουκίτσα, διαμαντάκι!

so. it gets five stars because of how terribly sad i still am. i read this online, of course, years and years ago, but i reread it in book form, just to see if anything had been added. it hasn't. just the fact of his death on the flap. i'd really rather have added material than that fact, wouldn't y Leggi tutto

I listened to this speech online and there is something about listening to David Foster Wallace talk that I find soothing As a speech it’s worth reading or listening to and offers a more compassionate way to view life.