& Wallace: I think, if the book is about anything, it’s about the question of «Why?» «Why am I watching all this shit?» It’s not about the shit. It’s about me.
& Wallace: I’m not saying that watching TV is bad or a waste of your time... any more than, like, masturbation is bad or a waste of your time. It’s a pleasurable way to spend a few minutes. But if you’re doing it 20 times a day—
& Wallace: But what you’re really doing, I think, is you’re running a movie in your head. You’re having a fantasy relationship with somebody who is not real... strictly to stimulate a neurological response.
& Wallace: ...the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier... and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable... to sit alone with images on a screen... given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that’s fine in low doses, but if it’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die... In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.
& Wallace: I do not have a TV, no.
Lipsky: How come?
Wallace: Because if I had a TV, I would watch it all the time. I don’t even know if I would watch it all the time, but it would be on all the time. My version of a fireplace— some sort of source of warmth and light... in the corner, I’d occasionally get sucked into.
& Wallace: So, yeah, it would be nice to have somebody that you shared a life with... and allowed yourself to be happy and... confused with.
& Wallace: The people who seem most enthusiastic are young men. Which I guess I understand. It’s a fairly male book. It’s a fairly nerdy book, too, about loneliness. You also can expect that someone who’s willing to read— and read hard— a thousand-page book is gonna be someone with some loneliness issues.
& Lipsky: So, is that what you think the book is about then? About loneliness?
Wallace: I think that if there’s a sort of sadness for people under 45, it has something to do with pleasure and achievement and entertainment. Like a sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on, and maybe I can hope that some parts of the book... speak to their nerve endings a little bit... If you quote any of this, by the way, you’d do me a great favor by saying... this is what I hope for the book, you know.
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& Wallace: I’m not saying that watching TV is bad or a waste of your time... any more than, like, masturbation is bad or a waste of your time. It’s a pleasurable way to spend a few minutes. But if you’re doing it 20 times a day—
& Wallace: But what you’re really doing, I think, is you’re running a movie in your head. You’re having a fantasy relationship with somebody who is not real... strictly to stimulate a neurological response.
& Wallace: ...the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier... and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable... to sit alone with images on a screen... given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that’s fine in low doses, but if it’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die... In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.
& Wallace: I do not have a TV, no.
Lipsky: How come?
Wallace: Because if I had a TV, I would watch it all the time. I don’t even know if I would watch it all the time, but it would be on all the time. My version of a fireplace— some sort of source of warmth and light... in the corner, I’d occasionally get sucked into.
& Wallace: So, yeah, it would be nice to have somebody that you shared a life with... and allowed yourself to be happy and... confused with.
& Wallace: The people who seem most enthusiastic are young men. Which I guess I understand. It’s a fairly male book. It’s a fairly nerdy book, too, about loneliness. You also can expect that someone who’s willing to read— and read hard— a thousand-page book is gonna be someone with some loneliness issues.
& Lipsky: So, is that what you think the book is about then? About loneliness?
Wallace: I think that if there’s a sort of sadness for people under 45, it has something to do with pleasure and achievement and entertainment. Like a sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on, and maybe I can hope that some parts of the book... speak to their nerve endings a little bit... If you quote any of this, by the way, you’d do me a great favor by saying... this is what I hope for the book, you know.
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Σ One needs to know Infinite Jest & David Foster Wallace to make a judgment.
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