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Love DFW's Kenyon College commencement speech, but he wasn't all sunshine and rainbows[0]: > In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer Mary
by otteromkram 2y ago
Love DFW's Kenyon College commencement speech, but he wasn't all sunshine and rainbows[0]:
> In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer Mary Karr. She later described Wallace as obsessive about her and said the relationship was volatile, with Wallace once throwing a coffee table at her as well as physically forcing her out of a car, leaving her to walk home. Years later, she claimed that Wallace's biographer D. T. Max underreported Wallace's abuse. Of Max's account of their relationship, she tweeted: "That's about 2% of what happened." She said that Wallace kicked her, climbed up the side of her house at night, and followed her five-year-old son home from school.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Abuse_allegations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace#Abuse_all...
- np_tedious 2y agoThere is another big reason not to call him "sunshine and rainbows"
- passion__desire 2y ago[flagged]
- llamaimperative 2y agoWallace had depression and anxiety since adolescence (i.e. well before any reported psychedelic use). Pretty inappropriate and irresponsible framing you've picked here!
- passion__desire 2y ago[flagged]
- defrost 2y agoIt's a tricky one. Depression often can lead to poor choices or life paths that would be better navigated if not depressed. "Engaged with drugs" could be substituted with "compulsively gambled" or even "collected and obsessively arranged bottlecaps" in some cases. These are behaviours that can be used to avoid deeper issues behind depression which can persist and lead to bad outcomes regardless of the behaviour.
- lukas099 2y agoOr "obsessively built an elaborate conspiracy about MAS*H"