David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (07/09)

[goodflo911]

that camera man when he does the insane close up hahahahaha, seriously:P

[riseofthejellyfish]

@goodflo911 I think he was just focusing

[nextjdrockefeller]

I got to compare the German translation of Infinite Jest (Unendlicher Spaß) to the English original. I must say the German editor has done a pretty good job,

but he did need 400 extra pages for it. The German book has 1400 pages. Yes, 1400 pages.

[Rohhaut]

@nextjdrockefeller Das liegt an der Sprache! Lieblingsbeispiel aus American Psycho: "I maced her again" wird in der deutschen Übersetzung zu "Ich sprühte ihr noch einmal Pfefferspray ins Gesicht". Darüber hat schon Arno Schmidt nachgedacht.

[cathysfiddle]

"I said the word 'existential loneliness'?"

[superduperbard]

I want to marry her. I think she is wonderfully self-denegrating and it works with DFW. It is a wonderful interview. and she has read the stuff, and then some. MICHIKO KAKUTANI (NYTRoB) did not, does not, and that is just the way it seems to be.

[noahspliff]

relentlessly grating

[officespace672]

I really want to see a picture of this interviewer...does anyone else find her voice relentlessly arousing?

[mtmessmer]

@officespace672 agreed

[howseth]

@officespace672 : Me too. I might not say "relentlessly" arousing, but yeah, the sound of a hidden young woman's voice (I am a man) - and I wonder what body is attached to that delicate, accented (to an American) with a friendly laugh...

[biringzm]

everyone, sit down with a pot of tea or a pot of coffee. we'll get at those hard questions.

[arsenal140]

The further on I go in this interview the less views it has, well done for making it this far.

[Mountainmove]

thats not the say that the interviewer was bad, she actually sounds pretty sympathetic, but i mean like... in hinsight, she sould've done this and that. ... you know... but all in all i think she was a pretty good interviewer, at least

[journeymanjim]

anyone know what language he's referring to around 5.05?

[ilyab16]

@journeymanjim french

[ginyuisreal]

He really pontificanted his definition of pontificate