Consider The Lobster
Why Blank Mag is in awe of the late David Foster Wallace. David Foster Wallace’s article “Consider the Lobster” begins as a journalistic report from the annual Maine Lobster Festival but soon becomes a philosophical meditation on the question, “Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” This [...]
Choice by David Foster Wallace
I am 33 now and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster each day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then i have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices [...]
David Foster Wallace
I have seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled what suntan lotion smells like spread over 21000 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as “Mon” in three different nations. I have watched 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric [...]
