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Infinite Jest (1996)
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Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.
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After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.
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They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
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You burn with hunger for food that does not exist.
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Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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David Foster Wallace
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Born:
February 21, 1962
Died:
September 12, 2008
(aged 46)
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