More DFW - Isn't That A Song By The Vaughan Brothers?

Just finished David Lipsky's book on DFW. 

Fun read. The moral of the story, for me, is how satisfied he was with Infinite Jest essentially (from the greek ontos - that without which a thing cannot exist) because he worked so hard on it. He is heavy handed in the conversations that the fluff is superfluous (insert Woody Allen line from Mighty Aphrodite: "I'm superfluous. What you don't feel good?" Oddly enough, DFW found Allen "schticky") and that the satisfaction is from the hard work he put in on the book. This is not debatable. Well maybe it is debatable but that would be superfluous ((insert Woody Allen line from Mighty Aphrodite: "I'm superfluous. What you don't feel good?" Oddly enough, DFW found Allen "schticky")

Seriously folks, I was class clown in 1988 for a reason and this class clown would have loved to have traded some "crackin'" with DFW. He and Lipsky riffed a few times and it made me want to jump in there and wordsmith right along. 

And of course the quote on the back, the bit about treating ourselves as precious. Somber. Bittersweet. 

Futile?

(The Vaughan Brothers' DFW )