Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dre…

David Foster Wallace
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Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.
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