The Howling Fantods

Sorry, forgot to add this to the front page this morn. Working on further round of updates right now.

http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/38/david-foster-wallace
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/literatur/David-Foster-Wallace;art138,2614453
http://www.netzeitung.de/kultur/1154017.html
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/1594071_Manischer-Zweifler.html
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/selbstmord_david_foster_wallace_1.831879.html
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,578151,00.html
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article2442613/David-Foster-Wallace-verliert-den-Krieg-mit-dem-Ich.html

In July I undertook a massive month-long road trip. I spent one day in Amherst combing the shelves for mentions of DFW and was not disappointed. I intended to share my finds with Wallace-l upon my return in early August, but I got a new job and things got put on the back burner.

Now, with the terrible loss of David Foster Wallace, the least I can do is for my fellow fans is get those items out to the community. So, I’ll post one item each day for the next six days. Most of these items aren’t even mentioned in the bibliography yet, so an update to that will be coming when I’m done posting these items.

His father said Sunday that Mr. Wallace had been taking medication for depression for 20 years and that it had allowed his son to be productive. It was something the writer didn’t discuss, though in interviews he gave a hint of his haunting angst.

 

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 James Wallace said that last year his son had begun suffering side effects from the drugs and, at a doctor’s suggestion, had gone off the medication in June 2007. The depression returned, however, and no other treatment was successful. The elder Wallaces had seen their son in August, he said.

“He was being very heavily medicated,” he said. “He’d been in the hospital a couple of times over the summer and had undergone electro-convulsive therapy. Everything had been tried, and he just couldn’t stand it anymore.”

• The pagination for all English versions of the novel are the same, the line referred to in my previous post on p.981 is the last in the whole novel prior to the footnotes.
• Yes, I'd be happy to help coordinate and publicise remembrance readings. But don't forget I'm on the other side of the world in Australia so it is difficult for me to do much more than that.
• I'm planning on setting up a remembrance page, of sorts, get writing. A funny experience with IJ on the bus? Your fave line? (I don't know really, we'll see what happens)

• Graduated from university with a double degree (Arts/Science). 

• Earned a diploma of education in secondary teaching and became a high school English teacher.

• Realised I was in love.

• Moved out of home.

• Attended four Cure concerts in the space of a week and met Robert Smith.

• Moved in with my partner.

• Discovered I was good at animating lego using stop motion animation.

• Won a couple of awards for said animations.

• Travelled overseas for the first time.

• Got married.

• Turned 30.

• Had a son. Lost my grandfather the following day.

• Try to contact David Foster Wallace.

• Attend a David Foster Wallace reading.

• Take photos of David Foster Wallace while he was reading.

• Line up after hearing David Foster Wallace read and get him to sign my 1st Ed. Hardback of IJ.

• Eventually reach the front of the line, and thus David Foster Wallace, and nervously (almost sub-audibly) admit that, yes, yes it was me who created that 'Howling Fantods' website.
  

• Share an uncomfortable, meaningful, and silent exchange of looks.

• Say, "oh, and would you mind signing my... I mean your... book?"