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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
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boredom
cyber
cyberworld
david-foster-wallace
depression
dissatisfaction
distractions
emptiness
empty
endlessness
facebook
facebook-addiction
facebook-quotes
filler
first-world-problems
jonathan-franzen
loneliness
lonely
problems
robinson-crusoe
satisfaction
solitary
solitude
stimulation
suicide
virtual
void
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Jonathan Franzen |
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"He [Wallace] sent a quick note to his friend [Franzen] explaining his behavior. "the bold fact is that I'm a little afraid of you right now,"[...] "all I can tell you is that I may have been that [a worthy opponent] for you a couple/ three years ago, and maybe 16 months or tow or 5 or 10 years hence, but right now I am a pathetic and very confused man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searing envious of you and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David Fuckward Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live and even approving them off some base-clause of conviction about the entrprise's meaning and end that I consider suicide a reasonable- if not at this point a desirable- option with respect to the whole wretched problem."
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david-leavitt
jonathan-franzen
literary-genius
mark-leyner
suicide
william-t-vollmann
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D.T. Max |
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"A publisher sent him a galley of a novel by a writer he had barely heard of, one that impressed him deeply and seemed to embody all the literary qualities he had called for in his "fictional Futures" essay. The book was Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City. Set in St. Louis, it mixed postmodernism and traditional storytelling and showed a familiarity its chosen city that Wallace could only marvel it. it decanted a Pynchonesque conspiracy in media-mediated language; it was about word AND the world, realism for an era when there was no real."
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jonathan-franzen
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D.T. Max |
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His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done.
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jonathan-franzen
regret
shame
the-corrections
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Jonathan Franzen |
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1a20f16
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I'm saying that children are not supposed to get along with their parents. Your parents are not supposed to be your best friends. There's supposed to be some element of rebellion. That's how you define yourself as a person.
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family-relationships
growing-up
jonathan-franzen
parents
parents-and-children
the-corrections
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Jonathan Franzen |
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320f882
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The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head.
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disorder
jonathan-franzen
mental-health
shame
the-corrections
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Jonathan Franzen |