Chuck Wenk

“flibbertigibbets”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I was wrong,” I told him. “What more do you want?” “Astonishment,” he said. I nodded. “I’m astonished, all right. I just don’t let it show.” “I should have gotten you when you were seventeen.” I shrugged, meaning that I wished he had.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won’t talk about it, it’s too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me—something that I’d always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar—a tough spot but also a sore spot.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

“unpleasant-fact specialist”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest