![]() His deep and complex interior life clashes with the emergency of the situation and his debonnaire descriptions of his horrific situation, embedded in between long sequences of daydreaming are really endearing. Wallace's pacing and sense of humor make this story an absolute delight. Fuck me I couldn’t get through this on my first read after oblivion it was fucked I’d been on a binge with the short story collections and I was in such a doomed mindstate I couldn’t have the last thing I read of his being him calling art shit. It's a good think it was followed by THE SOUL IS NOT A SMITHY, one of the best stories he's every written, where a young student is having an existential moment as his teacher is having a psychotic episode on the blackboard. David Foster Wallace Literary fiction Reading. It gets overbearing with mundane details quite fast. It's a long (over sixty pages), dritfting portrait of a focus group reunion where time seemed to have slowed down and Wallace uses his trademark omniscient vision on every member. In all of OBLIVION, it's the story that shows the most Wallace's influence of the avant-garde writers like John Barth and Donald Bartheleme. ![]() This is about the worst way you can open a David Foster Wallace story collection. ![]() ![]() SQUISHY, about a focus group for a new candy bar. ![]()
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