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… he persists in the bizarre adolescent idea that having sex with whomever you want whenever you want is the cure for ontological¹ despair

– David Foster Wallace,

reviewing John Updike’s Towards the End of Time, New York Observer 1997

Denise at thirty-two was still beautiful

– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

I cannot live without Arthur, despite certain inner resources

– Cynthia Koestler, suicide note

¹When the same essay appeared in his collection Consider The Lobster, published in 2004, DFW changed ‘ontological’ to ‘human’.