THE MEANING OF LIFE: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, #20 by David Foster Wallace: an analysis
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men David Foster Wallace. B.I. #20 12-96 New Haven, CT [story within a story: man picks up a "hippie chick" and when she shares with him a story of how she saved herself from dying at the hands of a psychotic killer through vulnerability and not defenses, he is transformed. 1. narrator's relationship to the hippie chick 2. hippie chick's relationship to her psychotic attacker. Many parallels and comparisons are drawn and made.] "...she was going to become just another grisly discovery for some amateur botanist a few day hence unless she could focus her way into the sort of profound soul connection that would make it difficult for the fellow to murder her...I just decided to presume that focus was her obscure denomination's euphemism for prayer." "And that this was my first hint of sadness or melancholy, as I listened with increasing attention to the anecdote, that the qualities I found myself admiring in her narra...
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