“ Later, in high school, competitive tennis and lusting after girls were pretty much my entire existence. Though college changed all that around.” He graduated in 1985 from Amherst with a double major in English and Philosophy—and with the highest GPA in his class. His senior philosophy thesis, he claims, had nothing to do with writing. “It offered a solution in how to deal with semantics and physical modalities concerning Aristotle’s sea battle. If it is now true that there will be a sea battle tomorrow, is a sea battle necessary tomorrow? If it is now false, is a sea battle impossible tomorrow? It’s a way to deal with propositions in the future tense in modal logic, since what is physically possible at a certain time is weird because one has to distinguish the time of the possibility of the event from the possibility of the time of the event.”
Huh?
✐ A 1987 profile of David Foster Wallace by Bill Katovsky – on McSweeney’s
Huh?
✐ A 1987 profile of David Foster Wallace by Bill Katovsky – on McSweeney’s
