dfwforever:

helensteeply:

crumbler:

“One of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. … If the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.” — David Foster Wallace, on the virtues of being difficult, as quoted in Ken Kalfus’ review of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. Illustration by Ruth Gwily.