Feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was...
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David Foster Wallace:
It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function.
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Yeah maybe in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis
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feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false
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and there is actually nothing
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And that you are nothing
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And it's all a delusion and you have
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You're so much better than everybody
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'cause you can see that this is just a delusion
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and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function
Clip duration: 29 seconds
Views: 144
Timestamp in movie: 01h 23m 23s
Uploaded: 19 March, 2022
Genres: biography, drama
Summary: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
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