Becca Jane Approximately
When your mother sends back your invitations
And your father to your sister he explains
That you're tired of yourself and all your creations
Won't you come and see me, Queen Jane?
Mar 3, 2009
4:31pm
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Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from.
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Imagine some sort of wolf-pack howl of recognition upon reading this. I don’t want to write about my own life too much in here, both because it is tedious and because it is my life, but I have been going through a Fall-On-Your-Knees moment, and it’s exquisitely difficult. I keep coming back to the idea of being a writer, as though that is something that will ultimately fulfill me, when…well, David Foster Wallace was 41 or around that age, and it certainly wasn’t enough for him. This is a successful writer, too.
The fact that he had a relationship with Mary Karr is delightful, however, as is the fact that he signed his letters to her “Young Werther.” But only to me. I suppose to them it was less amusing.
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