David Foster Wallace on a Desert Island Comic

[Rores28]

http://slingsandarrowsandtheproudman...rt-island.html

The funniest thing I've seen all week, maybe month.

[My2cents]

^^
That's pretty funny.

This might of interest too:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/ma..._r=1&ref=books

[Rores28]

Wallace, too, strived to make ethical arguments while soothing and flattering his readers and distracting them from the fact that arguments were being made.

As the Times critic A. O. Scott has observed, Wallace “wants to be at once earnest and ironical, sensitive and cerebral, lisible and scriptible, R&D and R&R, straight man and clown, grifter and mark.” Every assertion, consequently, comes wrapped in qualifications, if not partial refutations; a later essay, appearing in “Consider the Lobster,” is titled, “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think.”

^ I liked those parts, but for the record I am a fan of Wallace and his "infuriating" style

[My2cents]

for the record I am a fan of Wallace and his "infuriating" style

As am I.

Just recently I got started on Infinite Jest (a reread) and the funniest I ever read was the thing on video telephony, of how the vanity of people created an entire industry of video enhancing, and of how that ultimately led to the return to traditional telephones.

Marvelously inventive and so readable, DFW.