…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

David Foster Wallace

February 11, 2013

Boredom

“What am I doing here?” I now have an answer: I’m trying to out-sprint boredom. Continue reading

Creativity, Happiness, Life, The Examined Life

boredom, Creativity, David Foster Wallace, Heidegger
October 20, 2012

In closing…

A life well-lived is the greatest art. Become an artist. Continue reading

Curiosity, Happiness, Life, Memoir, Writing

curiosity, David Foster Wallace, guitar, Happiness, life, Nepal, Writing
May 6, 2012

“My whole life I’ve been a fraud.”

“Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people.” Continue reading

Technology, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Writing

David Foster Wallace, Facebook, Good Old Neon, Sherry Turkle
April 6, 2011

Moleskine notes

There are two types of men… Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Happiness, Literature, Philosophy, Writers

Bach, Camus, David Foster Wallace, James Joyce, Julian Schnabel, Maine, Melville, Moleskine, Portland, Sisyphus, The Pale King, The Wilson Quarterly
August 19, 2010

A Pandemonium of Myths…

Backward is no longer backward. It is forward. Continue reading

Philosophy, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Wisdom

Authenticity, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Modernity, Nietzsche, Yvon Chouinard, Zarathustra
June 29, 2010

First sentences…

…his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Thinkers, Writers

Annie Dillard, Bernard Malamud, David Foster Wallace, E.B. White, First Sentences, Gabriel García Márquez, Guy Davenport, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Updike, José Saramago, Paul Bowles

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