Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, a…

David Foster Wallace
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Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? ✨ Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.
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Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? ✨ Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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