Τι καταλαβαίνετε ότι εννοεί εδώ ο David Foster Wallace; Μιλάει για την επιτυχία του με το μπεστ-σέλερ Infinite Jest που έκανε πάταγο το 1996.
All I know is, this is absolutely the best I could do between 1992 and 1995. If everybody hated it, I wouldn't have been thrilled. I don't think I would have been devastated either.
When you're used to heavy literary stuff that doesn't sell, being humans with egos, you accommodate that by the following equation: If something sells really well, it's gotta be shit, right?
Irony is, if your thing starts selling well, gets a lot of attention, the mechanism you used to shore up yourself when it didn't, is now part of the darkness nexus. So you're totally screwed. You know, you can't win.