Former Amherst Professor on David Foster Wallace
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The 139th online comment in response to a New York Times portrait of the late author was by a former teacher of his:
I can't say how his death makes me feel: he may have had the words, but I don't.
So here's a true fact to embellish his reputation (not that it needs much embellishment):
He wrote two senior theses at Amherst. A creative thesis in English that was his first novel, "The Broom of the System," and a philosophy thesis on fatalism. Both were judged to be Summa Cum Laude theses. The opinion of those who looked at the philosophy ...