What went wrong?
Also what's his best book not titled Infinite Jest?
What went wrong?
Also what's his best book not titled Infinite Jest?
Perpetual Prank
he changed his meds and had an adverse reaction. i don't care what anyone else says, i miss the guy. his writing is easy to connect with and he had a lot of potential.
If The Pale King had been finished it would be universally recognized as the finest novel of our millennium.
Favorite part of Pale King?
This.
Not him, but Drinion levitating during the tête-à-tête at Meibeyer's..
I really need to get around to it. It's just been sitting on my shelf for years.
He did not have an adverse reaction, he was on phenelzine and was sick of the side effects so decided to try some new drugs, which was a big risk, when you stop treatment with phenelzine it has a tendency to never work again. Sadly, in David's case, it did not work again, nor did any other treatment he tried.
The Pale King
Stopped using the meds he was on, his bad depression reared its head, tried a bunch of shit to make it go away and it didn’t. I think Wallace could’ve been truly helped, but he needed some serious, high quality therapy - not just trying to numb the pain with antidepressants. But what do I know?
The best thing he wrote besides Jest is his short story The Soul is Not a Smithy. Although I agree that Pale King would’ve been a masterpiece if he finished it.