ESSENTIAL READING

Tom Bissell remembers David Foster Wallace in The Times. This sentence is great:

"He spoke about the difficulty of empathy ("Think about it: There is no experience you’ve had that you were not at the absolute center of"), the importance of being well adjusted ("which I suggest to you is not an accidental term") and the essential lonesomeness of adult life ("lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation")."

Noticed on Goodjobbb.