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November 09, 2008
The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace
"He was the greatest writer of his generation — and also its most tormented. In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind."
David Lipsky's October 30, 2008 Rolling Stone article is heartbreaking.
[via Russ Thompson]
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I can't understand suicide. There are meds. David was popular with his
students and published.
Micheal Criehton suffered from depression and we lost him at 66 from cancer.
Mike was told as an undergrade he could not make a living at writing.
That hurt him! You can fight depression but cancer not so good.
Tam
Posted by: Garcia | Nov 15, 2008 1:21:29 PM
"O touching and unsupportable loss."
It was heartbreaking, devastating. It breaks my heart to think of anyone suffering in that way, from something so unexplainable to so many. Maybe especially people who aren't particularly gifted or extravagantly talented, who aren't surrounded by loving and caring family and friends, whose very survival depends on their ability to "deal with it" around people who will cut them little or no slack.
Posted by: Flautist | Nov 10, 2008 3:40:00 PM
Well written piece. I was immersed into Mr. Wallace's world by the author. Thank you for sharing it.
Having dealt with depression myself, and now being on the up side looking back, after reading of the tragedy in the life of Mr. Wallace, I wonder what bit of my human makeup might change one day and put me in a similar dark state. There I go, whither the folly of my own body.
The most meaningful point was the admission that one might get to such a state of depression where electro-shock-therapy would be grasped as an attempt to at least alleviate the symptoms.
Such sadness in the loss of Mr. Wallace. I have put his work on my list to be read.
Posted by: Matt Penning | Nov 9, 2008 8:48:06 PM
