Forever DFW*

thepalekingevent:

A recent Boston Review article, How to Be Happy: The Ethics of David Foster Wallace, examines two works by DFW: his technical senior honors thesis and his 2005 commencement address to Kenyon College.

“What is there for Wallace’s literary fans in his thesis? A ready answer is nothing whatsoever. But a better, if hidden, one is that in it is the most important idea of all, the one that links together all his works, all his most passionate thinking: the idea of how truly to be free, or, as he more colorfully expressed it, of how to be ‘a fucking human being.’”