Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 )

For those of you (like me) who are fans of big long difficult works of metafiction, you will be sad to learn that David Foster Wallace has passed on, apparently from a suicide. As a person who, like Wallace, is also an out-of-control Thomas Pynchon fan, I’m sad to say that the collective consciousness of human minds, our great noosphere, is greatly diminished this evening, lighter and emptier.

So it goes.