Comments on: David Foster Wallace’s different Hosts http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/07/david-foster-wallace-different-hosts/ A blog that's ≥ the best of you. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:38:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Sailer http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/07/david-foster-wallace-different-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-5552 Steve Sailer Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:03:35 +0000 http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=251#comment-5552 "Host" was just an awful article: 23 pages of DFW demonstrating that he has a higher IQ than an obscure talk radio guy. And the ending is just hilariously bad: the host's most glaring fault, in DFW's mind, is that the talk radio guy is convinced that O.J. is guilty! “Host” was just an awful article: 23 pages of DFW demonstrating that he has a higher IQ than an obscure talk radio guy. And the ending is just hilariously bad: the host’s most glaring fault, in DFW’s mind, is that the talk radio guy is convinced that O.J. is guilty!

]]> By: Kevin http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/07/david-foster-wallace-different-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Kevin Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:19 +0000 http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=251#comment-29 I'm going to start pronouncing DFW Deef-Dub. I’m going to start pronouncing DFW Deef-Dub.

]]> By: Alan Trotter http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/07/david-foster-wallace-different-hosts/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Alan Trotter Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:30:17 +0000 http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=251#comment-28 I resisted the temptation to include any footnotes, so this comment will have to be the closest thing. One of the most distinctive features of Wallace's writing is external to it: the compulsion it creates in other people to mimic him. Please feel free to read this as an apology for the length of this post. I resisted the temptation to include any footnotes, so this comment will have to be the closest thing. One of the most distinctive features of Wallace’s writing is external to it: the compulsion it creates in other people to mimic him.

Please feel free to read this as an apology for the length of this post.

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