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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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suicide
solitude
loneliness
satisfaction
depression
cyberworld
endlessness
facebook-addiction
filler
first-world-problems
virtual
solitary
stimulation
distractions
dissatisfaction
facebook-quotes
david-foster-wallace
jonathan-franzen
boredom
facebook
cyber
emptiness
problems
robinson-crusoe
empty
void
lonely
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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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suicide
david-leavitt
literary-genius
mark-leyner
william-t-vollmann
jonathan-franzen
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D.T. Max |
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1d3d4e3
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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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681406f
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His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done.
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the-corrections
jonathan-franzen
shame
regret
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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
the-corrections
jonathan-franzen
growing-up
parents
parents-and-children
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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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the-corrections
jonathan-franzen
disorder
shame
mental-health
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Jonathan Franzen |