Every so often, a writer comes along that you just sort of feel... Connected with. For my cousin, that writer is the Transcendentalist poet/intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson. While perusing Barnes & Noble the other night, I realized that for me, that special writer is the tragic, Post Modern essayist David Foster Wallace. Today I decided that I would just write a little essay (For fun of course. Because as the name of this site indicates, I'm a nerd) about what I believe to be his ideologies. My respect for this man and his aforementioned ideals will obviously be very apparent in this essay, to the point of what may seem like bias. Know that this isn't a criticism or a review of any of his work - Just me trying to make sense of a belief system and man that I truly identify with. Hit the jump if you'd like to check the essay out.
-Geddy
Note: As a tribute to DFW, I will be employing the use of footnotes in this piece. They're much less obtrusive than using parenthesis every time I want to make a separate point or clarify something. Scroll to the bottom whenever you see * or ^ or some variation thereof to read an expanded point.
Note 2: This is only really a small sample of what eventually evolved into a 10 page essay, so if it feels at all lacking or short, it's because it is a bit of a dry run.
