—David Foster Wallace, from "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in Girl with Curious Hair
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
organism
Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs.
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