Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories

His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”

passionate need for encounter telegraphed by sentences that seem ostentatiously to prohibit it, as if only by passing through all the stages of bureaucratic deformation can we touch each other as human beings.