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Crazy genius author (and Pomona professor) David Foster Wallace killed himself on Friday. I want to make a mean joke about a suicide note with lots of footnotes, but the whole thing bothers me a lot. I strongly dislike it when people who are incisively introspective and terrifyingly smart are unable to handle that which they discover.

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I still expected of him that he would produce a piece of work that would have made Infinite Jest seem like the ritualistic fires-stoking press conference the night before the heavyweight championship fight.