Si Lethem ang pumalit kay DFW sa kanyang kolehiyo; ang kanyang ginawang Liner Note (sa Fortress of Solitude) sa mga piling kanta ng mitikal na soul-singer na si Barry Rude, Jr. at ang mga komposisyon ng kanyang grupong Distinctions—’kinanta nila ang napakatinding kalungkutang di na halus kayang dalhin nitong pop na midyum’—ay magpapaalala sa iyo sa super-obsesibong deskripsyon ni DFW [...]
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Despairing of the reality of things and totally certain of their nullity, they, without any further ado, simply help themselves to them and devour them. [Hegel]
We have come to see tomorrow
We have given up today
Down among the dancing quanta
Up above in Transverse City
Here's the witness and the victim
Here's the relatives' remains
Here's the well-known double helix
Here's the poisoned waves of grain
Here's the song of shear and torsion
Here's the bloodbath magazine
Here's the harvest of contusions
Here's the narcoleptic dream
[Warren Zevon]
