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• misaacs - Sep 14 2008 | Writing and Writers, life, society

  David Foster Wallace, best known for his 1996 novel ''Infinite Jest,'' was found dead in his home, according to police. Wallace's wife found her husband had hanged himself when she returned home Friday.

  Quoted: how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed... Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
  This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
• now - Nov 20 2006 | Books

  Love this author, love this speech.
• fogmonkey - Sep 29 2008 | arts, literature, miscellaneous
• pescatello - Dec 30 2005 | commencement, speech, inspiring, funny, college, quotes, life, interesting, imported:del.icio.us