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David Foster Wallace

“To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
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