18 Ιουνίου 2012

David Foster Wallace, απόσπασμα από το "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"

"I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I’m starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful."

τα είπε όλα μάλλον.

2 σχόλια:

Ανώνυμος είπε...

mas gamises...autos den autoktonise sta 40 tou? o eggonos tou pynchon?..

kour

μελ είπε...

κρεμάστηκε ναι. δύσκολη φάση. αυτή είναι μια ομιλιάρα του απο το 2005. παίρνει όλο το βάρος της ύπαρξης και το αλαφραίνει με ελάχιστα απλά βήματα. σοκ.

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/martinme/Thisiswater.htm

έχει πάρα πάρα ΠΑΡΑ πολλά ωραία γραπτά. και ναι όπως λές, σε κριτικές κλπ κλπ τον θεωρούσαν έναν από τους "συνεχιστές" του πίντσον.