The Mortality Paradox
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In this article, Stephen Cave and David Foster Wallace describe the mortality paradox.
Philosophy | Reading Time: 3 minutes David Foster Wallace: The Mortality Paradox David Foster Wallace, in an interview with Larry McCaffery, found in Conversations with David Foster Wallace , comments on our dread of both relationships and loneliness. It’s always tempting to sit back and make finger-steeples and invent impressive-sounding theoretical justifications for what one does, but in my case most of it’d be horseshit. As time passes I get less and less nuts about anything I’ve published, and it gets harder to know for sure when its antagonistic elements are in there because they serve a
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