anyone who is that deep in this thread, might enjoy "The Onion" piece on DFW (http://www.theonion.com/article/girlfriend-stops-reading-david-foster-wallace-brea

anyone who is that deep in this thread, might enjoy "The Onion" piece on DFW (http://www.theonion.com/article/girlfriend-stops-reading-david-foster-wallace-brea-76 http://www.theonion.com/article/girlfriend-stops-reading-dav...). It was published in 2003 (about eight years after IJ). In the hilarious article, DFW's girlfriend, receives a break up letter from DFW that is 67 pages long and which she only read the first 20 pages of. She goes to to critique his letter--eg, " 'One thing I found annoying was that you had to read all the way to the middle to figure out what things on the first page of the letter were talking about,' Thompson said. 'For instance, he kept referring to somebody named The Cackler without explanation until page 11, at which point I finally found out that The Cackler is my friend Renée' "