DFW

When I write it’s usually full of self-consciousness, irony, feel like I have to have the fourth wall firmly down, not to break the illusion of fiction in the name of honesty and truth. I don’t feel comfortable misleading, results in stories that and dripping in doubt and no lineation. Nobody want the character of me in there, however he finds himself inserted regardless.

With DFW, he’s very much the same, however the character of himself is welcome, is full of such interesting reflection and self doubt, that he’s instantly relatable, in fact you only want him there, to ride along inside his mind, with all his neurotic thoughts.

Such humour

Cerebral - purposefully and self-consciously intellectual

Breakdown of the use of the word cerebral

Wittgenstein - complexities and nuances of everyday life, no simplification of moral message

Not literature solely, combines our polymath education

Wittgenstein autistic comment - on the spectrum, my tendencies, which include insisting we are all on the spectrum