Comments on: de-fête http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/ the internet literature magazine blog of the future Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sdda http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-39353 sdda Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:41:55 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-39353 gadhe gadhe

]]> By: sdda http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-39352 sdda Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:41:36 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-39352 sadsadasdasd sadsadasdasd

]]> By: keith n b http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-10230 keith n b Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:36:07 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-10230 i haven't read any dfw, but now after what i've read about him and the interviews i've read he seems to have been a convergence of heart and mind, and in that convergence a third eye whose vision extended deep into and well beyond the domain and concerns of literature. damn man... come back mr wallace. i haven’t read any dfw, but now after what i’ve read about him and the interviews i’ve read he seems to have been a convergence of heart and mind, and in that convergence a third eye whose vision extended deep into and well beyond the domain and concerns of literature. damn man… come back mr wallace.

]]> By: keith n b http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-103221 keith n b Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:36:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-103221 i haven't read any dfw, but now after what i've read about him and the interviews i've read he seems to have been a convergence of heart and mind, and in that convergence a third eye whose vision extended deep into and well beyond the domain and concerns of literature. damn man... come back mr wallace. i haven’t read any dfw, but now after what i’ve read about him and the interviews i’ve read he seems to have been a convergence of heart and mind, and in that convergence a third eye whose vision extended deep into and well beyond the domain and concerns of literature. damn man… come back mr wallace.

]]> By: Matt Bell http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-10193 Matt Bell Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:22:59 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-10193 I really enjoyed the New Yorker article about DFW, and I like this quote a lot. I just listened to him read his book Consider the Lobster in the car this last week, and was struck by the essay about tennis star Tracy Austin--which, a year ago, would have seemed like fluff--and his argument about how the blankness that champion athletes have during games/matches allows them to be athletic geniuses by shutting off their own thought processes, keeping them from contemplating what they're doing while their in the act (and thus preventing them from meaningfully reflecting on it later). I wish I had the book in front of me, so I could type out the passage, but what he was describing seems like the very thing that he was unable to do as a writer, at least in his last years that the New Yorker piece describes--to silence the part of him that questioned his abilities constantly, and kept him from being able to write as freely as easily as he wanted to. This is a terrible comment, since I can't give the source material. I might have to hunt down a physical copy of the book to try again. I really enjoyed the New Yorker article about DFW, and I like this quote a lot.

I just listened to him read his book Consider the Lobster in the car this last week, and was struck by the essay about tennis star Tracy Austin–which, a year ago, would have seemed like fluff–and his argument about how the blankness that champion athletes have during games/matches allows them to be athletic geniuses by shutting off their own thought processes, keeping them from contemplating what they’re doing while their in the act (and thus preventing them from meaningfully reflecting on it later). I wish I had the book in front of me, so I could type out the passage, but what he was describing seems like the very thing that he was unable to do as a writer, at least in his last years that the New Yorker piece describes–to silence the part of him that questioned his abilities constantly, and kept him from being able to write as freely as easily as he wanted to.

This is a terrible comment, since I can’t give the source material. I might have to hunt down a physical copy of the book to try again.

]]> By: Matt Bell http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-103220 Matt Bell Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:22:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-103220 I really enjoyed the New Yorker article about DFW, and I like this quote a lot. I just listened to him read his book Consider the Lobster in the car this last week, and was struck by the essay about tennis star Tracy Austin--which, a year ago, would have seemed like fluff--and his argument about how the blankness that champion athletes have during games/matches allows them to be athletic geniuses by shutting off their own thought processes, keeping them from contemplating what they're doing while their in the act (and thus preventing them from meaningfully reflecting on it later). I wish I had the book in front of me, so I could type out the passage, but what he was describing seems like the very thing that he was unable to do as a writer, at least in his last years that the New Yorker piece describes--to silence the part of him that questioned his abilities constantly, and kept him from being able to write as freely as easily as he wanted to. This is a terrible comment, since I can't give the source material. I might have to hunt down a physical copy of the book to try again. I really enjoyed the New Yorker article about DFW, and I like this quote a lot.

I just listened to him read his book Consider the Lobster in the car this last week, and was struck by the essay about tennis star Tracy Austin–which, a year ago, would have seemed like fluff–and his argument about how the blankness that champion athletes have during games/matches allows them to be athletic geniuses by shutting off their own thought processes, keeping them from contemplating what they’re doing while their in the act (and thus preventing them from meaningfully reflecting on it later). I wish I had the book in front of me, so I could type out the passage, but what he was describing seems like the very thing that he was unable to do as a writer, at least in his last years that the New Yorker piece describes–to silence the part of him that questioned his abilities constantly, and kept him from being able to write as freely as easily as he wanted to.

This is a terrible comment, since I can’t give the source material. I might have to hunt down a physical copy of the book to try again.

]]> By: Adam Robinson http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-10128 Adam Robinson Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:26:23 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-10128 The mark of a person who is smart (or good at partying) and not just a drug-addled neanderthal is where they place their puke -- an umbrella stand is pretty high up the ladder. The mark of a person who is smart (or good at partying) and not just a drug-addled neanderthal is where they place their puke — an umbrella stand is pretty high up the ladder.

]]> By: Adam Robinson http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-103219 Adam Robinson Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-103219 The mark of a person who is smart (or good at partying) and not just a drug-addled neanderthal is where they place their puke -- an umbrella stand is pretty high up the ladder. The mark of a person who is smart (or good at partying) and not just a drug-addled neanderthal is where they place their puke — an umbrella stand is pretty high up the ladder.

]]> By: Justin Taylor http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-10127 Justin Taylor Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:24:03 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-10127 I think your point gets across. This is what formalist poets will tell you about verse-forms, and meter in general. DFW of course is making a more general point, but the logic still applies. If it's really the case that "everything is permitted" than isn't it implied by same that nothing matters? The logical extreme of inclusion is paralysis, or possibly irrelevance. If the choices you make don't matter, and there's no sense in which anything is better or worse than anything else, then why do anything? Or more to the point- HOW CAN YOU do anything? I think your point gets across. This is what formalist poets will tell you about verse-forms, and meter in general. DFW of course is making a more general point, but the logic still applies. If it’s really the case that “everything is permitted” than isn’t it implied by same that nothing matters? The logical extreme of inclusion is paralysis, or possibly irrelevance. If the choices you make don’t matter, and there’s no sense in which anything is better or worse than anything else, then why do anything? Or more to the point- HOW CAN YOU do anything?

]]> By: Justin Taylor http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/de-fete/comment-page-1/#comment-103218 Justin Taylor Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:24:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=6107#comment-103218 I think your point gets across. This is what formalist poets will tell you about verse-forms, and meter in general. DFW of course is making a more general point, but the logic still applies. If it's really the case that "everything is permitted" than isn't it implied by same that nothing matters? The logical extreme of inclusion is paralysis, or possibly irrelevance. If the choices you make don't matter, and there's no sense in which anything is better or worse than anything else, then why do anything? Or more to the point- HOW CAN YOU do anything? I think your point gets across. This is what formalist poets will tell you about verse-forms, and meter in general. DFW of course is making a more general point, but the logic still applies. If it’s really the case that “everything is permitted” than isn’t it implied by same that nothing matters? The logical extreme of inclusion is paralysis, or possibly irrelevance. If the choices you make don’t matter, and there’s no sense in which anything is better or worse than anything else, then why do anything? Or more to the point- HOW CAN YOU do anything?

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