My first thought was Why? But I think, if you have read DFW, you know the answer.
To quote
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor to its essential horror.
Think of the old cliche about the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many cliches, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master
Harper's have collated his essays on http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557. Thanks to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/17/notes091708.DTL&feed=rss.mmorford
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Had never heard of the name before, but when I came across this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=1) on the SF Gate page, I realised I'd bookmarked it on Delicious since I loved it. If those are the kind of articles he writes, then I'm going to start reading more, notwithstanding his passing away.
A writer's works live, after all, longer than their creator.
Yeah, thought the article was sublime. The first article of his I read was the String Theory - it was an essay in the real sense :) http://www.esquire.com/features/sports/the-string-theory-0796
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