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- English Books
- Paperback 383 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0349111022
- ISBN-13: 9780349111025
- Publisher: Abacus
- Pub date: Nov 06, 1997
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
- In other languages: other languages
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A great talent, a great patent
He was a great talent.
An he was immediately given a patent for that.
Maybe that is why, at times, it seems (to me) that this talent was not used for all what Foster Wallace wrote, but just for most of it.
Some of the tales are wonderful (the first is exceptional; the same with that ... (continue)
He was a great talent.
An he was immediately given a patent for that.
Maybe that is why, at times, it seems (to me) that this talent was not used for all what Foster Wallace wrote, but just for most of it.
Some of the tales are wonderful (the first is exceptional; the same with that involving President Johnson).
Others, though (I am referring in particular to the tale involving Letterman), only seem to me as perfect creative writing exercises and little more.
Foster Wallace wrote to ease the pain. And we know that medicine does not always taste good.
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