Reading as a lonely child's relationship with a sensed intelligence, and writing judged alive only when it feels like…
echoes
From: DFW in conversation with David Kipen — City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco (June 17, 2004)
- Early text:
[scene] Wallace roots the intimacy drive of his
sentences in having started reading very young out of loneliness, going to
books for a relationship — never a person talking, but the sense of an
intelligence, another human thing, he was in communion with [00:07:08];
and he says the work of his that feels alive carries a feeling of
communicating with somebody unknown, the live distinction being
communication versus exposition [00:09:02–00:09:56]
- IJ echo: the oeuvre-wide communication/solipsism spine;
the fiction-as-anti-loneliness program stated to McCaffery in 1993
(mccaffery-1993-interview)
- Weight: shared-preoccupation