Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

by David Lipsky

But realize the limitations of space, time, and historical situation. You’re talking about nobody will be trained to read the way we read. Which means that if people are reading in more short bursts or whatever, that art will find a way to form conversations with readers in the brain voice or vernacular that they’ve got. And for a while, when they, you know, what’s—is it Nietzsche’s term or Heidegger’s term? “The old gods have fled and the new gods have not come”? It will be a bleak time.