Feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was...
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David Foster Wallace:
There's a thing in the book about how when somebody leaps from a burning skyscraper, it's not that they're not afraid of falling anymore, it's that the alternative is so awful. And so then you're invited to consider what could be so awful that leaping to your death would seem like an escape from it. I don't know if you have any experience with this kind of thing. But it's worse than any kind of physical injury. 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. It's really horrible.
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There's a thing in the book
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about how when somebody leaps from a burning skyscraper
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It's not that they're not afraid of falling anymore
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it's that the alternative is so awful
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And so then you're invited to consider what could be so awful
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that leaping to your death would seem like an escape from it
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And I don't know if you have any experience with this kind of thing
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but it's worse than any kind of physical injury
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Yeah maybe in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 190
Timestamp in movie: 01h 22m 54s
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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