“The world is very old.”
This man changed my life. To better days, DFW.
(Obscured: peace sign, or bunny ears.)
* A note about the photo: it was taken while DFW signed my copy of Infinite Jest on the page of my favorite passage (the one above, p.387), which he thought was odd, but whatever. The occasion was a live recording of the KCRW show Bookworm in Los Angeles, where he was to read from his essay “Ticket to the Fair”. The date was March 20, 2003, the first day of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. As you can hear in the recording (beginning at 15:30) DFW was noticeably preoccupied by the day’s events. It was clear that he felt it inappropriate to be reading from his humorous essay while the invasion weighed so heavily on his mind. It was clear that he felt it very deeply and took it very personally.
