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What was "it"? In Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747--that clinical depression is "lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... Everything is part of the problem, and there is no solution. It is a hell for one." What Wallace suffered was both agonizing and indescribable, even by him. And that last may have been what made it unbearable. Like Hamlet--who gave Infinite Jest its title--he had that within which passeth show. Even if he could have written...
...It’s a very, very difficult situation,” Rogoff said in a phone interview yesterday. “You really can’t overstate it. The whole system is incapacitated—I just don’t see how to clean...
...direction. “Almost all of Houston is congregating in the two big malls because they’re the only ones with power,” she said. Kodama said that a general feeling of frustration has taken over the city, manifesting itself in the frequent angry phone calls to local radio shows. “They’re angry about the infrastructure problems, and [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] took a while to get started,” she said. But she added that a newfound sense of community has emerged in Houston...
...benefit of being separated from home by an ocean. If I were unmasked as a culinary dud, I’d return to proclaim myself “so over cooking,” and no one would have to know.So after a year of Italian A, a few phone calls, and some generous traveling fellowships, I was off to Hotel Vannucci in Umbria. Other than my arrival date and the hotel’s address, I knew next to nothing about the apprenticeship. I could very easily have agreed to four weeks washing cutting boards in exchange...
...music is reactive and progressive: it takes a Benny Goodman to beget a Chuck Berry to beget The Rolling Stones. The cloudbank to honesty that is Jay Chou bothered me, but it pained me even more that the experiences of people who did not find love through a cell phone were not reflected by art in their language. Dashboard Confessional, evidently, does not make albums in Mandarin. What was even more troubling was that even some of the fans of the Carsick Cars—among the most progressive Chinese—were still smoking the metaphorical Zhong...