David Foster Wallace - Forever Overhead 1/3

David Foster Wallace reads "Forever Overhead," from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999. Part 1 of 3.

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[dethbypapercuts]

R.I.P. sweet sweet david, i hope that you have found your peace that you could not find on this soulless and selfish earth.

[djembeandtheghost]

Just relax, please.

[ducknerd0]

This story is such an enigma to me. So totally different from anything else in the collection--why does he put on this sentimental voice here? why does he remove quotation marks? why the poetic emphasis on the sounds of the words?

[kkallebb]

This piece seems much more romantic, nostalgic, sentimental and idealized than most of his other writing. 

[orinincandenza]

@dotdotdotmichelle BBBBBBBOOOOORRRRRINNNNNGGGGG!

[sujithecat]

This is one of my favourite pieces by DFW, but his reading flattens it a little. The first time I read this was a revelation to me, he describes beautifully and succinctly things that most (all?) of us wouldn't even have thought of describing; the swimming pool 'healing' after a dive for one. His familiarity with the text leads to a lack of emphasis and required pauses that a new reader would automatically insert. Buy 'Brief Interviews..' and read it yourself, absolute genius.

[tenorsingsfromheart]

I had nothing but praise for his work, but he shouldn't have been reading to people.

[ernestnallen]

I so love DFW <3 RIP

[shrewdape77]

What you haven't maybe considered, ellipsis michelle, is that some (possibly large) portion of the people who would view a youtube clip wherein DFW reads his (arguably wordy) work might be predisposed to (wordy? awkwardly phrased? or maybe only polysyllabic?) writing the way they do, which way you find so worthy of disdain.

Why, for instance, did you decide to watch and/or comment on this clip?

[dotdotdotmichelle]

Ew. Nothing lamer than a bunch of eggheads trying to prove how clever they are with their wordy yet awkwardly phrased comments.

David Foster Wallace cant read this, and he isnt sitting on a cloud somewhere nodding his head approvingly when you use big words.

[TheFantasticlub]

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