a letter to the active community
… from CLIQUE (or me, at least), as communicated by David Foster Wallace, now printed on AGENT ORANGE.
I’ve tried several times to take this passage and adapt it to Mararthon, but it seems not just hopelessly hard but actually disrespectful to modify it. Still, I think it’s so important, so worth bringing to your attention, that I’d like to quote it verbatim below. It is the best account I have read in years of mentorship, fatherhood, and self-consolation in the face of failure, disability, and lost potential, moral acceptance and selfish anger, and the way all of these seep bruise-like into your everydays.
For once, this isn’t community commentary — there’s hardly an agent in this text other than the father, and hence no room for the Pfhorums — but it does inform you of some community context. Anyway, not everything is about you.
