It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
David Foster Wallace[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
David Foster WallaceIt means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
David Foster WallaceI submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.
David Foster Wallace