RIP DFW

David Foster Wallace died on September 12, 2008. Something I wrote years ago seemed appropriate, so I added a dedication:

jungle
(after David Foster Wallace)

the music was incomprehensible until they realized that at each beat, the instruments were playing every note on the chromatic scale save one, and that the melody consisted entirely of its own delicate absence.

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Ron Nurwisah asked me for something for a collection of reactions from Canadian writers for the Post, so I sent it along. The column is attached to this post as a PDF.

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