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Uploaded on Apr 11, 2010

Charlie Rose interviewed the late David Foster Wallace, a contemporary American author, on March 27, 1997.

DFW: The stuff that I was doing was really more math than philosophy, and I don't know whether I would have taught. If you're good enough at that they just kind of put you in a think tank and let you write on yellow paper.

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  • jg7368

    jg7368 2 months ago

    axl rose?

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  • James Ellis

    James Ellis 1 month ago

    For anyone wondering, also as the 2nd to top comment is 'asl rose?' He wore the bandana for perspiration, due to anxiety...

    This is water. 

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  • Nekoko Chan

    Nekoko Chan 1 week ago

    MAN, FUCK THAT WHITE NIGGA

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  • bob warren

    bob warren 1 week ago

    I enjoy both Bloom and Wallace.....I don't have to agree with the people that I enjoy to enjoy their work.

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  • John O'Brien

    John O'Brien 1 week ago

    If you read Infinite Jest in its entirety and don't AT LEAST think it was at least A LITTLE impressive, then I guess that says a lot about you then doesn't it?

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  • serotone9

    serotone9 2 weeks ago

    Lol, so many jealous people who couldn't ever hope to write anything a tenth as good as IJ. Kind of sad.

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  • cynthmcgpoet

    cynthmcgpoet 2 weeks ago

    It's the anxiety, really. Nothing more involved than that.

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  • tomsckay7point0

    tomsckay7point0 3 weeks ago

    It's natural for someone who appreciates actual works of genius like Leaves of Grass to be scornful Wallace.

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    tomsckay7point0 3 weeks ago

    He thinks Walt Whitman is the greatest writer since Shakespeare...Whitman is hardly white-bread high-brow.

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  • Golden Ratio

    Golden Ratio 1 month ago

    Rightly so I would say. Rose can be a bit of a tosser at times.

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  • MemoryofGhostille

    MemoryofGhostille 1 month ago

    He's not the only critic I've read to criticize DFW's prose. I very much enjoy his work and I marvel at his intelligence and down-to-earth demeanor but when you're in one of his books, the prose can really nail you over the head a lot, and that turns some people off understandably.

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