I sort of hope my kid gets in trouble for something like this one day why is it that religious leaders are never puzzled?
Sep 16

“The truth is that most US academic prose is appalling - pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipidelian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead.”

David Foster Wallace

Who, tragically, hung himself a few days ago. Which means that future readers will have an even harder time understanding him. But you should really find out for yourself. Because he really was a genius. So, so sad.

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