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Wallace's own stated poetics — good writing comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable — read as the…

echoes

From: Esto no es una necrológica: David Foster Wallace

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Did you know? The fastest-growing reader position on Hal is that there was no dose at all — that his breakdown is marijuana withdrawal, possibly braided with a Hamlet-style feigning of madness (the no-dose reading).