Heh, I had a feeling as I was writing that that chances were it wasn't a completely original idea. It also struck me that naming years opened the possibility of naming rights, but I supposed that corporations might want to avoid owning years for the same sort of reason they would want to avoid owning hurricanes ... although taints seem to wear off of years pretty quickly ... maybe. I wonder how many Americans have a bad feeling about 2001.
Most of what I know about David Foster Wallace comes from All Things Shining, which didn't leave me with a good impression (or at least didn't leave me wanting to read him--they do call him "the greatest writer of his generation; perhaps the greatest mind altogether"). Mostly I will (probably) never read Infinite Jest because it's too damn long, and if I'm going to read a novel that long, why not Moby Dick (which All Things Shining did leave me wanting to read--I was tempted to review All Things Shining thus: Moby Dick is probably worth reading; David Foster Wallace, not so much), or Karamazov, or, uh, War and Peace, or something....
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Date: 2012-01-03 10:59 pm (UTC)Most of what I know about David Foster Wallace comes from All Things Shining, which didn't leave me with a good impression (or at least didn't leave me wanting to read him--they do call him "the greatest writer of his generation; perhaps the greatest mind altogether"). Mostly I will (probably) never read Infinite Jest because it's too damn long, and if I'm going to read a novel that long, why not Moby Dick (which All Things Shining did leave me wanting to read--I was tempted to review All Things Shining thus: Moby Dick is probably worth reading; David Foster Wallace, not so much), or Karamazov, or, uh, War and Peace, or something....