DFW copy of Borges: A Life by Edwin Will

DFW copy of Borges: A Life by Edwin Will

First page handwritten draft of Infinite

First page handwritten draft of Infinite

DFW copy of Players by Don DeLillo

DFW copy of Players by Don DeLillo

✖ Via David Foster Wallace Archive at The Harry Ransom Center
“The Wallace materials are being processed and organized and will be available to researchers and the public in fall 2010. Some items from the archive can be viewed at www.hrc.utexas.edu/dfw, and a selection of materials will be on display in the Ransom Center’s lobby through April 9. High-resolution press images from the collection are available.” (more)

There’s a good overview of the archive and its story in the last edition of The New Yorker (subscription may be needed for full access).

David Foster Wallace is the author of Infinite Jest (1996). He died in 2008. Learn more about him on Wikipedia. Kottke has some suggestions for those who are planning to read The Infinite Jest.


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✖ Via Tom Gauld: 191.Novel vs Essay

The Medium is the message ? (again)

Previously on Skandalon


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Un être vivant ne s’adapte jamais à son milieu ou alors, en s’adaptant, il meurt. La lutte pour la vie est la lutte pour la non-adaptation. Vivre, c’est être différent. C’est pourquoi toutes les grandes espèces végétales et zoologiques sont monstrueuses.
✖ Via Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars, éd. Grasset, coll. Les Cahiers Rouge, Paris, [1926]1983, p. 70.

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✖ Via Tom Gauld: 179. The Difficult Novel (for the Guardian, Saturday Review letters page).

Previously on Skandalon.


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Kevin Dart: “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”


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Certes, le premier qui imagina de faire servir une gazette à ce que des êtres humains trouvent ce qu’ils cherchent, celui-là devrait avoir sa statue. Tout ce qui crée des rencontres mérite encouragement, même quand il s’agit de rencontre à fin sentimentale, et malgré tout ce qu’elles supposent de niaiserie et de médiocrité.
✖ Via Henry de Montherlant, Les jeunes filles, éd. Gallimard, coll. Folio, Paris, 1936, p. 22.

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Hemingway had given the power to believe you could still shout down the corridor of the hospital, live next to the breath of the beast, accept your portion of dread each day. Now, the greatest living romantic was dead. Dread was loose. The giant had not paid his dues, and something awful was in the air. Technology would fill the pause. Into the silence, static would enter. It was conceivable that man was no longer ready to share the dread of the Lord.
✖ Via Norman Mailer, Of A Fire On The Moon, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969, p. 4.

Mailer underlines the fact that “John F. Kennedy had made his declaration concerning the moon not six weeks before Hemingway was dead”.



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PLAYBOY: What do you think we’ll find on the moon?
STANLEY KUBRICK: I think the most exciting prospect about the moon is that if alien races have ever visited earth in the remote past and left artifacts for man to discover in the future, they probably chose the arid, airless lunar vacuum, where no deterioration would take place and an object could exist for millennia. It would be inevitable that as man evolved technologically, he would reach his nearest satellite and the aliens would then expect him to find their calling card—perhaps a message of greeting, a cache of knowledge or simply a cosmic burglar alarm signaling that another race had mastered space flight. This, of course, was the central situation of 2001.
✖ Via Playboy: Director Stanley Kubrick interviewed by Eric Nordern for Playboy Magazine, September 1968. Full article available online.

“To discover what has made Kubrick so respected—and controversial—a director, and to plumb both his own complexities and those of 2001, Playboy interviewed Kubrick at his elegant mansion outside London, a short drive from MGM’s studio at Borham Wood, where he is working on his latest film—a biography of Napoleon. Interviewer Eric Norden found Kubrick—”a slim, relaxed man with thinning hair, dark beard and intense eyes”—sprawled in a chair on the spacious expanse of lawn overlooking his elegantly tended gardens. “As Kubrick crossed one scuffed shoe over a wrinkled pants leg,” writes Norden, “I began by asking him to decipher the metaphysical message of 2001. Though his answer was enigmatically evasive, he was far more voluble about his space odyssey, and the destiny it prophesies for the human race, than about himself as man or moviemaker. It may be that he feels his private life is too dull to talk about, or perhaps too interesting, or simply nobody’s business but his own. But I think it’s more likely that he is one of those rare men whose self-concern is plural and impersonal, to whom the present is less real than the possible, who live less in the world of tangible reality than in the uncharted country of the mind.”” (read more)

I first came to know the existence of this interview through Sister Of The Raging Sea.



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Cela se paie, le bonheur de ne pas aimer les médiocres. Et aimer des médiocres se paie par la médiocrité du bonheur qu’on y goûte.
✖ Via Henry de Montherlant, Les jeunes filles, éd. Gallimard, coll. Folio, Paris, 1936, p. 34.

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Le repliement sur soi-même n’est bon qu’aux natures singulières et fortes, et encore, à condition d’être relatif et entrecoupé. Les autres le payent cher. On ne s’enferme pas dans sa chambre impunément. On ne vit pas sur soi seul impunément. On «n’envoie pas coucher» impunément ses semblables. Et cela est bien ainsi, puisque le repliement sur soi-même – quand il n’est pas commandé par de hautes raisons intellectuelles ou spirituelles – n’a le plus souvent pour cause que la paresse, l’égoïsme, l’impuissance, bref, cette «peur de vivre» dont on n’a pas assez dit quelle place elle occupe parmi les maux qui désolent l’humanité.
✖ Via Henry de Montherlant, Les jeunes filles, éd. Gallimard, coll. Folio, Paris, 1936, p. 22.

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