You probably have already heard from somewhere else [1] but David Foster Wallace has died at age 46[2].

[1] From waxy or kottke or even the nyt.

[2] I want to use words like displeased or upset. But those aren’t quite right. [3] Granted, I only met him once at book signing in LA (and that means “met”) but my copy of “Infinite Jest” is signed (complete with a drawing of a house by him). Ug ug ug. There is one less genius in the world today; something I do not say lightly.

[3] They are more than that; he offered insights in a way no one else did and my own world-view will be smaller without his comments. What’s the correct word to describe this?

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