Infinite Jest and The Birth of Tragedy: Art as mover of man

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I’ve heard there was a secret chord

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That David played, and it pleased the Lord

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But you don’t really care for music, do you?

-Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

By a happy coincidence, I was re-reading Infinite Jest and The Birth of Tragedy at the same time.
Each are brilliant books. Nobody writes like Nietzsche, and nobody writes like David Foster Wallace. Each writer grab...