Wow. Just incredibly sad news. We’ve lost an unbelievable talent.
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Depression is a DISEASE vs. Fight it/fight the power.
Both are true statements.
Clinical depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. I’ve suffered from it. It felt like going off to fight the Vietnam War every day — in my head. To say that it’s utterly exhausting and that it sucks a person’s will to live is a gross understatement. But even on my worst days I had the presence of mind, if you will, to question what was happening to me and to try to find a way out. Maybe it’s the survival instinct that kicks in. I don’t know what else to call it.
Prescription drugs have turned my life around but, and this is a big butt, I also had to do a lot of thinking about what was going on in my life at the time that triggered the incident in the first place and what I could do to change things. I’m still working on that part . . .
wow…I just started reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again for the 3rd time. This is the first I have heard of this news. I am awestruck.
Awful. I spent all day yesterday thinking about Wallace’s work after I heard the news. He really had his own thing going on that I don’t think can ever be duplicated. He and his inimitable style will really be missed.
If anyone’s interested, McSweeney’s is posting thoughts by those who knew him.
I started reading the McSweeney’s comments and I’m going to now read all of DFW’s books, or at least skim them even if I can’t finish them, as penance for what I’m about to say:
What the world needs now is a few more brainless jocks in order to counterbalance all of this unremitting neurosis.
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