http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/01/09/my-favorite-short-stories-david-foster-wallace-forever-overhead/ Separating signifier and signified Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:55:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/01/09/my-favorite-short-stories-david-foster-wallace-forever-overhead/#comment-33 Rev. Syung Myung Me Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:10:41 +0000 http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2008/01/09/my-favorite-short-stories-david-foster-wallace-forever-overhead/#comment-33 <p>I have said it before, probably even to you, but that is my favorite short story by anyone. And it too was the one that made me go "OH MY GOD, DFW IS BASICALLY GOD". I initially started with <i>Infinite Jest</i>, didn't get it, then about 6 months later or so, at the urgings of my friend Ben, I got <i>Brief Interviews</i>. Liked the first couple stories pretty well, then read "Forever Overhead" and just... blown away.</p> I have said it before, probably even to you, but that is my favorite short story by anyone. And it too was the one that made me go “OH MY GOD, DFW IS BASICALLY GOD”. I initially started with Infinite Jest, didn’t get it, then about 6 months later or so, at the urgings of my friend Ben, I got Brief Interviews. Liked the first couple stories pretty well, then read “Forever Overhead” and just… blown away.

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