The world might be chaotic and exhibit 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' (One year ago, how many people could have predicted the snowball of Donald T

The world might be chaotic and exhibit 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' (One year ago, how many people could have predicted the snowball of Donald Trump's campaign?), but it would be disingenuous to claim that biographies are complete noise. Even the genre of Fiction, despite its nomenclature, elicits truths about the world, possibly even the most profound truths that non-fiction cannot otherwise capture. Right before coming here, I had just watched 'The End of the Tour', a drama about a Rolling Stones journalist writing a biography about writer David Foster Wallace (and now I'm writing about it, how meta is that?). In my opinion, David Foster Wallace's work is a paragon of fiction eliciting those profound truths. Ironically enough, one of the themes explored in the film was about being in-tune versus out-of-touch with reality specifically in the context of success / fame. I leave you with an excerpt from the film (Spoiler Alert): All your protesting "I'm just regular guy". You don't crack open a thousand page book because the author is a regular guy. You do it because he is brilliant. Because you want him to be brilliant.