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Infinite fun, or "a fellow of infinite wit" ("a fellow of infinite jest")

It can not be read at a crowded café, or with a child on one's lap.
Dave Eggers

some unsorted links before the start endless fun :

• Raiders of the Lost Ark word - Alex Rühle visits Ulrich Blumenbach (suedeutsche.de, 19/09/2008)
• the English Wiki Infinite Jest
• "The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace " by David Lipsky, Rolling Stone, Oct. 30, 2008
• An interview with David Foster Wallace , Charlie Rose, March 27, 1997 ( transcript )
• The Bookworm (KCRW), hosted by Michael Silverblatt with various interviews and programs about DFW
• "Reviews, Articles, and Miscellany" - Links to DFW
• "Great and Terrible Truths" by Tom Bissell , New York Times, April 24, 2009, a meeting of the ...
• ... commencement address at Kenyon College , Gambier, Ohio, USA, May 21, 2005
• The Salon Interview , March 1996
• Infinite Summer: Infinite Summer - "join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009 "

supplement 19.08.2009:

• a project for" Endurance bibliophile "is dated 24 August-1 December 2009 here (or here ) - for all those who have enough cash to afford the German translation for € 39.95 (instead of mostly so the € 13 euros for the English paperback edition) may want
• Leave Those who must live - Klaus Brinkbäumer of DFW

Supplement 22:08 .2009:

Today the reviews in the national German daily newspapers and the NZZ have been published:

• glance at pearl,
  
• Süddeutsche Zeitung ,
• the daily newspaper ,
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung ,
  
• Frankfurter Rundschau ,
  
• The world (oh, yes - Springer!) And
  
• the paid article in the FAZ may soon cost at buecher.de .
  

obituaries

• obituary of DFW (NPR) and excerpts from an interview with National Public Radio (flash!)
  
• The New Yorker, Obituary, by Deborah Treisman, September 29 , 2008
  
• The Slate, Obituary, By Troy Patterson Posted Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2008, at 1:41 PM ET
  
• I Will Miss David Foster Wallace by Madeleine Brand, NPR
  
• The Guardian, Obituary, by Michael Carlson, Monday 15 September 2008 (die Urversion )
  
• Time, Obituary, by Joel Stein

And I submit that this is what the real, no-bull- value of [...] liberal-arts education is supposed to be about:

How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.

[...]

And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default-settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self.

Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation.

This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness

, the default setting, the "rat race" - the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.

David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement Address, May 21, 2005 or again here