The Words
a writer leaves behind
“The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely no...”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (1996)
The words a writer chooses reveal more than story.
They reveal a mind.
The Corpus
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Words Analyzed
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Years Spanning
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Anomalies Detected
1962 — 2011
A life in words
1962
Born in Ithaca, New York
1987
The Broom of the System published
1989
Girl with Curious Hair published
1996
Infinite Jest published
1997
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again published
1999
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men published
2002
Begins teaching at Pomona College
2004
Oblivion published
2005
Consider the Lobster published
2007
Discontinues medication
2008
Dies by suicide, September 12
2011
The Pale King published posthumously
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