DFW's "E Unibus Pluram"
Happy New Year. Kinda got rocked with the news on MF DOOM's death, which was a sour start to the year, but otherwise we're still kicking. I thought it would be interesting to look at David Foster Wallace's essay "E Unibus Pluram" today. Mostly because I watched some short clip about DFW and his essay on The Oscars, and some dude brought it up, and I was like oh God not this again. Background So a little background info: I used to be a huge DFW fan when I was in college. Read a lot of his stuff, Infinite Jest (of course) (if I've already written this in some other blog post and I'm being that guy I'm going to hang myself), and his other small essays, including E Unibus Pluram . What I remember from reading it way back then was just this feeling of like, oh my God you're so right Mr. Wallace! Just his dick straight hanging in my mouth. The word play! Oh the humorous irony! I hate using the word "seductive" to describe...