Posted on 09/14/2008 12:51:00 PM PDT by mojito
I loved his non-fiction work as well.
Heck, I even read “Everythig and More”, his history of the study of infinity. As much fun to read as Infinite Jest and his brillint essays in “A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again”.
He will truly be missed.
RIP.
Have you read anything of his? I feel like I should have. He was huge with twenty and thirty somethings.
I know a guy whose girlfriend's roommate got into a fight with his girlfriend over some extremely controversial catty episode within their little clique.
The roommate hung herself in the girlfriend's room in their shared apartment, clearly a last-ditch act of hatred and contempt for her former best friend.
Unfortunately for my buddy, his girlfriend asked him to stop by her room on his way to meet her for dinner to pick up some item she had forgotten at home.
He walked in on the roomate in her last throes of death, cut her down in an attempt to save her and she died in his arms.
He's a really nice, considerate guy and he was deeply, deeply affected by this.
Waugh he wasn't.
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