David Foster Wallace hanged himself on Friday, September 12th.

  1. Wallace once posited in a piece in The Atlantic Monthly that there should be a ceiling on the level of things worth dying for.
  2. Wallace also believed that Irony1 "hinders and complicates authentic communication in fiction and culture as a whole."2

Discuss.





1Wallace would no doubt argue the pants off of this definition of irony. Sue mei.
2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
iFootnotes in memoriam.