The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of per…

David Foster Wallace
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The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2012). Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, p.7, Hachette UK
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The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand. ✨ David Foster Wallace (2012). Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, p.7, Hachette UK

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