{"id":4535,"date":"2008-09-18T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2008-09-18T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T09:50:00","slug":"remembering-david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/remembering-david-foster-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grch.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Rahul Bhatia\">Rahul<\/a> points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200293\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\" title=\"Finite Jest\">this tribute<\/a> in which a bunch of writers and editors share their memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Foster_Wallace\" title=\"David Foster Wallace -- Wikipedia\">David Foster Wallace<\/a>. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Tragic as Wallace&#8217;s death is, I think that suicide is the most dignified way to die: you choose the time and manner of your own passing, and can prepare yourself for it without burdening others. (I know most of my readers won&#8217;t agree, and I won&#8217;t try to convince you!)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, just as suicide may sometimes reflect humility, in embracing our own mortality, it can also reflect arrogance, as drama queen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yukio_Mishima#Ritual_suicide\" title=\"Yukio Mishima's seppuku -- Wikipedia\">Yukio Mishima&#8217;s seppuku<\/a> certainly did. But what a writer he was, that Mishima, saving his only bad plot line for his own life. Such it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grch.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Rahul Bhatia\">Rahul<\/a> points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200293\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\" title=\"Finite Jest\">this tribute<\/a> in which a bunch of writers and editors share their memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Foster_Wallace\" title=\"David Foster Wallace -- Wikipedia\">David Foster Wallace<\/a>. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Tragic as Wallace&#8217;s death is, I think that suicide is the most dignified way to die: you choose the time and manner of your own passing, and can prepare yourself for it without burdening others. (I know most of my readers won&#8217;t agree, and I won&#8217;t try to convince you!)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, just as suicide may sometimes reflect humility, in embracing our own mortality, it can also reflect arrogance, as drama queen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yukio_Mishima#Ritual_suicide\" title=\"Yukio Mishima's seppuku -- Wikipedia\">Yukio Mishima&#8217;s seppuku<\/a> certainly did. But what a writer he was, that Mishima, saving his only bad plot line for his own life. Such it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering David Foster Wallace - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/remembering-david-foster-wallace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering David Foster Wallace - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rahul points me to this tribute in which a bunch of writers and editors share their memories of David Foster Wallace. 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