This is part one of a 10 part piece. All ten pieces linked below straight to YouTube.
The more I find out about this guy the more I love him and the sadder I get that he’s no longer alive. So completely unpretentious, honest, and exposed.
We all worship and we all have a religious impulse. We can choose, to an extent, what we worship, but the myth that we worship nothing and give ourselves over to nothing simply sets us up to give ourselves away to something different. For instance, pleasure, or drugs, or the idea of having a lot of money.
I don’t know that anyone would put Foster Wallace on a list of spiritual or religious writers, but I have a continuous sense while reading his writing that he has a very spiritual/transcendent point of view. Not preachy, just a sense that he’s seeing outside the box of what’s “normal.”
YouTube-David Foster Wallace interview 2003 part 1 of 10
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