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David Foster Wallace: Proof in his own words that he was overrated

April 15, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

I’ve never read a word of this guy’s.

I didn’t like his picture and I didn’t like who liked him.

Now I see that my instincts were, of course, 100% correct, because in his own words he admits to being a big phony. This is like a singer bragging about using autotune:

For me the big trio is a big dictionary, a usage dictionary, a thesaurus — only because I cannot retain and move nimbly around in enough of the language not to need these extra sources.

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