It (1) is sad news (2) (3) he (4) died (5). We (6) need more people (7) like him (8).
(1) sad news.
(2) I don't understand why it's sad news. As I see it, there are three possibilities.
First, such an enlightened being maybe just noticed that he could reincarnate to the best effect by cutting his time here short. In such a case, it's not sad news. In the meta-logical world that he walked in, he just made a logical choice and will be back at us, fundamentally unchanged, in a fundamentally new form. The next 40 or 50 years must be great if he hopped off the elevator now to get a start being in his or her new prime by then.
Second, look at it from his point of view. Can you imagine being him and having to deal with stupid fucks like us every day? If we had empathy for him, we should be glad he is freed from his misery, especially the misery of being a couple hundred years ahead of his time.
Third, if, like some very scurrilous, completely inappropriate, unfactual and baseless, based on nothing but speculation, comments, poorly timed and in bad taste, on slashdot, have suggested, this might conceivably be an epic fail at autoerotic asphyxiation, then isn't it also true that the same genetic propensity towards perversion may have been what caused grandpa Wallace to plug grandma Wallace in her ass while she was butchering a pig, causing pa Wallace to be born and thus Infinite Jest to get written, so, it doesn't make sense to be sad about a consequence of something like that, which led to so many good things including the birth of the person.
(3) Is it sad when the sun sets? Why the heavy taboo around death?
(4) He, ostensibly, refers to Wallace, who, being a human, like any other (until recently?), is actually nothing but a self referential feedback loop that temporarily deceives itself into thinking it exists, as Wallace himself no doubt understands, which actually has no discrete boundary with the environment it hilariously confuses itself about thinking it is separate from, and might more accurately be thought of as a single brilliant thought (a eureka) in a larger cognitive process.
(5) Wallace is one of those guys for whom death doesn't really represent a shift in consciousness. In the east, they have gurus. We get sci-fi writers.
(6) Us stupid fucks.
(7) Understood grammar effects and structures of larger logical altering of people on consciousness parallel in altering the style of who in synchronic analogy and linked multiple of interpretation same the data of.
(8) David Foster Wallace.
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It (1) is sad news (2) (3) he (4) died (5). We (6) need more people (7) like him (8). (1) sad news. (2) I don't understand why it's sad news. As I see it, there are three possibilities. First, such an enlightened being maybe just noticed that he could reincarnate to the best effect by cutting his time here short. In such a case, it's not sad news. In the meta-logical world that he walked in, he just made a logical choice and will be back at us, fundamentally unchanged, in a fundamentally new form. The next 40 or 50 years must be great if he hopped off the elevator now to get a start being in his or her new prime by then. Second, look at it from his point of view. Can you imagine being him and having to deal with stupid fucks like us every day? If we had empathy for him, we should be glad he is freed from his misery, especially the misery of being a couple hundred years ahead of his time. Third, if, like some very scurrilous, completely inappropriate, unfactual and baseless, based on nothing but speculation, comments, poorly timed and in bad taste, on slashdot, have suggested, this might conceivably be an epic fail at autoerotic asphyxiation, then isn't it also true that the same genetic propensity towards perversion may have been what caused grandpa Wallace to plug grandma Wallace in her ass while she was butchering a pig, causing pa Wallace to be born and thus Infinite Jest to get written, so, it doesn't make sense to be sad about a consequence of something like that, which led to so many good things including the birth of the person. (3) Is it sad when the sun sets? Why the heavy taboo around death? (4) He, ostensibly, refers to Wallace, who, being a human, like any other (until recently?), is actually nothing but a self referential feedback loop that temporarily deceives itself into thinking it exists, as Wallace himself no doubt understands, which actually has no discrete boundary with the environment it hilariously confuses itself about thinking it is separate from, and might more accurately be thought of as a single brilliant thought (a eureka) in a larger cognitive process. (5) Wallace is one of those guys for whom death doesn't really represent a shift in consciousness. In the east, they have gurus. We get sci-fi writers. (6) Us stupid fucks. (7) Understood grammar effects and structures of larger logical altering of people on consciousness parallel in altering the style of who in synchronic analogy and linked multiple of interpretation same the data of. (8) David Foster Wallace.