What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
David Foster WallaceIf Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
David Foster WallaceThink of the old clichรฉ about โthe mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.โ This, like many clichรฉs, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.
David Foster Wallace