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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment w...
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.
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- '... Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is. Such endurance is, as it happens, the distillate of what is, today, in this world neither I nor you have made, heroism. Heroism. ... By which, ... I mean, true heroism, not heroism as you might know it from films or the tales of childhood. ... [T]here is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. ... Here is the truth -- actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.' 'True heroism is you, alone,in a designated work place. True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care -- with no one to see or cheer. This is the world. Just you and the job, at your desk.' (查看原文)
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2013-05-31 19:33:52
—— 引自第303页 - I know three separate times during this unmotivated period I withdrew from college and tried working so-called real jobs. One was that I was a security guard for a parking garage on North Michigan, or taking tickets for events at the Liberty Arena, or briefly on the production line at a Cheese Nabs plant working the cheese product injector, or working for a company which made and installed gymnasium floors. Then, after a while, I couldn’t handle the boredom of the jobs, which were all unbelievably boring and meaningless, and I’d quit and enroll someplace else and essentially try to start college over again. My transcript looked like collage art. (查看原文)
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的确是草稿，埋在表面叙事背后的宏观情节架构没有写完（甚至连铺垫都没有写完），有几个地方也看不懂是谁在跟谁说话或者说什么话，但依然有独属DFW的魅力章节。花一百多页写浪荡子心中秩序崇拜的觉醒？花五十多页写美人在酒吧对机器人倾诉青春伤痕？是的，这就是我想在DFW的小说里读到的东西，古怪，细节庞杂，侧重心理分析，泄洪一样汹涌的语言。Infinite Jest写的是depression（反面是pleasu... 的确是草稿，埋在表面叙事背后的宏观情节架构没有写完（甚至连铺垫都没有写完），有几个地方也看不懂是谁在跟谁说话或者说什么话，但依然有独属DFW的魅力章节。花一百多页写浪荡子心中秩序崇拜的觉醒？花五十多页写美人在酒吧对机器人倾诉青春伤痕？是的，这就是我想在DFW的小说里读到的东西，古怪，细节庞杂，侧重心理分析，泄洪一样汹涌的语言。Infinite Jest写的是depression（反面是pleasure），the Pale King写boredom，都是很现代的主题。要去体现现代的经验，要用怎样的文学手段？DFW的创作就是一种解答，而且是很漂亮的解答。文学历史是会记住DFW的。 (展开)
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Tornado Feeling and Unfinished or Unfinishable Novel.《苍白之王》The Pale King与其说是遗作，毋宁说是大福华的草稿，这些手稿并没有显示章节，只是海量的“材料”。《苍白之王》的成型出版主要依赖编辑的整理工作，正如编辑在前言所说，这个工作并不轻松，即使根据大福华... (展开)
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