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AIDS’s Gift to Us
Not one of Wallace’s best moments ever.
IN THAT EVERYDAY STRUGGLE he did not always succeed. His worst reported efforts take as their subject the Tumescent Intelligence of David Foster Wallace. The most obvious examples in Both Flesh and Not are the haughtily allusive “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open,” with such lines as “The classico-Peloponnesian implications of Nike and of having all these kids running around with Nike wings on their foreheads like Lenten ash seem too obvious to spend much time belaboring,” and the truly execrable “Back in New Fire,” an encomium to AIDS, which closes by remonstrating with us for our sport-fucking ways: “AIDS’s gift to us lies in its loud reminder that there’s nothing casual about sex at all. This is a gift because human sexuality’s power and meaning increase with our recognition of its seriousness.” I.e., Reader, fuck thyself.
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““AIDS’s gift to us lies in its loud reminder that there’s nothing casual about sex at all. This is a gift because human sexuality’s power and meaning increase with our recognition of its seriousness.”
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