...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome. - David Foster Wallace
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...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.
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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (21 February 1962 – 12 September 2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works include The Broom of the System (novel), Infinite Jest (novel), The Girl With Curious Hair (short story collection), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story collection), A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essay collection), and the posthumously-published The Pale King (novel) and Both Flesh and Not (essay collection).
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform- and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.
