write it down

i read the book "supposedly fun things i'll never do again” by David Foster Wallace. I post all of my book critiques and reviews on https://bookwyrm.social/user/wizard145 (also on the link page).

i wrote down lines that really stood out to me and imo made the book reading worth it. this post is from the first 46 pages, i will be updating posts with the quotes compiled in the future. for now here is this batch:

p46 (on: ritualizied social rites portrayed in media)
“… the management of spontaneous moments.”
p48 (on generational divide in education)
“(we simply) did not conceive the “serious” world in the same way.”
p38 (on media addiction)
“… something is malignantly addictive if (1) it causes real problems for the addict and (2) offers itself as relief from the very problems it causes.”
p33 (on a trained audience)
“A dog, if you point at something, will only look at your finger.”
p25 (on being observed as an object)
“(Thespians are) absolute geniuses at seeming unwatched… a total unallergy to gazes is contemporarily heroic.”
p23 (on observing others as objects of inspiration for art being a form of voyeur)
“…watching somebody who hasn't prepared a special watchable self.”
p23 (on loneliness in modern society)
“(People are) lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.”
QUOTED from KNOTT 1983:
I strap a TV monitor to my chest
So that all who approach can see themselves and respond appropriately.