A Quote

{Not many people (including myself) have been commenting recently so I decided to post something short and to the point and rather self-explanatory. It's a quote by David Foster Wallace, whose birthday it would've been last week, if he hadn't hanged himself in 2008, aged 46. Wallace was a phenomenal writer and a fiercely intelligent thinker — I find his suicide sad and troubling beyond words.}

"There's something magical for me about literature and fiction. I think it can do many things that not only pop culture can't do, but that are urgent. One is that by creating a character in a piece of fiction you allow the reader to leap over the wall of self and to imagine himself being not just somewhere else, but someone else, in a way that no other form can do. Because people, I think, are essentially lonely, and alone, and frightened of being alone."

And that, my friends, is a form of heart rape we all have to deal with...