David Foster Wallace

A funny excerpt from an interview he insisted be conducted by writing so that he could edit his draft answers.

11) Much of your work has to do with our seemingly insatiable need for instant gratification through passive enjoyment of entertainment. Can you talk about the challenges of looking critically at entertainment media while also trying to provide an experience that is—at base level, anyway—entertaining? Why do you choose this medium to deliver this message?

Unanswerable within the constraints of a condensed back-and-forth like this (see Q14).

I am unable to untangle the layers of reference to the various media.

Poor guy.