May 2011
4 posts
Notes from David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
On liberal arts education:
And I submit that this is what the real, no-bull- value of your liberal-arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.
On (not) worshipping:
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