Dec 16, 2008

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I don’t think that in admitting our favorite artists have weaknesses we do them a disservice; indeed, pretending otherwise is to perpetuate a hagiographical fiction that precludes real understanding of their work. That they struggled with foundational weaknesses is what made their art purposive; it is the source of much of it, I think.
Mills in a great post on a piece on David Foster Wallace

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    a great post on a piece
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    thesis (posted by the always-astute Greg Brown). This is a brilliant point. I like Wallace very much, but I think any...
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