 | Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from. |
The above quote can be find D.T. Max short essay “The Unfinished. David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”” which was published in The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.
David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008.
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