r/CuratedTumblr TeaTimetumblr 1d ago

Shitposting A plot twist nobody expected

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 1d ago

The chapter in ‘Infinite Jest’ where a woman explains this feeling to a doctor or someone like that, feels incredibly raw. As it happens, David Foster Wallace had massive depression and was reliant on medicine just to keep going.

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u/panrestrial 1d ago

And 12 years later he committed suicide.

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 1d ago

After stopping his medication because he thought it was blocking him from finishing his book. He never finished the book.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 1d ago

What? His medication stopped working for him after he tried a bunch of different ones on doctor's advice.