July 27th, 2009 / 11:02 pm
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“The Planet Trillaphon…” by David Wallace
Perhaps this is old news for some, but Tin House has republished an early David Foster Wallace story, which was, according to Rob Spillman, only previously available in Wallace’s college literary magazine, The Amherst Review. The story is titled “The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation To The Bad Thing” and is available online in various PDF forms (though I hadn’t even known of its existence until I saw this issue of Tin House).
I’m happy to have discovered the story.
Here’s the first paragraph:
I’ve been on antidepressants for, what, about a year now, and I suppose I feel as if I’m pretty qualified to tell what they’re like. They’re fine, really, but they’re fine in the same way that, say, living on another planet that was warm and comfortable and had food and fresh water would be fine: it would be fine, but it wouldn’t be good old Earth, obviously. I haven’t been on Earth now for almost a year, because I wasn’t doing very well on Earth. I’ve been doing somewhat better here where I am now, on the planet Trillaphon, which I suppose is good news for everyone involved.
You can read the rest of the story by clicking over to this PDF file.
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I like how he is being called David Wallace / Dave Wallace now, after his passing, as he apparently preferred that to dfw.
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July 28th, 2009 / 6:52 amdavidpeak—
That’s how he’s credited in the issue. Seems like it was his choice. The DFW moniker is safe.
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it’s because when he was first publishing broom, bonnie nadell told him that there was another writer out there named david rains wallace so she thought he should insert his mother’s maiden name to avoid confusion.
my god this motherfucker is missed.
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i would’ve like to have been able to finsh the essay. it gets cut off. why is that? answer me!
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July 28th, 2009 / 2:48 pmRyan Call—
that’s the end. it cuts off midsentence in Tin House as well.
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Cf. Richard Vigorous’ “I’m a man of my” in Broom. Duh.
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July 28th, 2009 / 11:21 pmRyan Call—
what does Cf. mean?
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July 28th, 2009 / 11:26 pmjh—
Compare or consult. I thought you went to college.
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May 1st, 2010 / 3:35 pmbrndn—
actually, it’s an abbreviation of confer
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