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David Foster Wallace
‘Excited, is all he gets, sometimes, an excitable kid, impressed with —’
‘But the
‘Undescribable.’
‘Like an animal.’
‘Subanimalistic noises and sounds.’
‘Nor let’s not forget the
‘Have you ever gotten
‘Like some sort of animal with something in its mouth.’
‘This boy is damaged.’
‘Like a stick of butter being hit with a mallet.’
‘A writhing animal with a knife in its eye.’
‘What were you possibly
‘And his
‘You didn’t see it, Tavis. His arms were —’
‘Flailing. This sort of awful reaching drumming wriggle.
‘Like a time-lapse, a flutter of some sort of awful … growth.’
‘Sounded most of all like a drowning goat. A goat, drowning in something viscous.’
‘This strangled series of bleats and —’
‘Yes they
‘So suddenly a bit of excited waggling’s a crime, now?’
‘You, sir, are in trouble. You are
‘His face. As if he was strangling. Burning. I believe I’ve seen a vision of hell.’
‘He has some trouble communicating, he’s communicatively challenged, no one’s denying that.’
‘The boy needs
‘Instead of caring for the boy you send him here to
‘Hal?’
‘You have not in your most dreadful fantasies dreamt of the amount of
‘And you, White. You sought to
‘— and terribly impressed and excited, in there, without us, his support system, whom you asked to leave, which if you’d —’
‘I’d only seen him play. On court he’s gorgeous. Possibly a genius. We had no idea. The brother’s in the bloody NFL for God’s sake. Here’s a top player, we thought, with Southwest roots. His stats were off the chart. We watched him through the whole WhataBurger last fall. Not a waggle or a noise. We were watching ballet out there, a mate remarked, after.’
‘Damn right you were watching ballet out there, White. This boy is a balletic athlete, a player.’
‘Some kind of athletic savant then. Balletic compensation for deep problems which
‘— haps we’ll just be on our way,’ C.T. is saying.
‘The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.’
‘— think you could pass off a damaged applicant, fabricate credentials and shunt him through a kangaroo-interview and inject him into all the rigors of college life?’
‘Hal here
‘We witnessed something only marginally