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Remembering a giant

Of the many essays charting the life and times of David Foster Wallace, perhaps the most poignant appeared recently in the alumni magazine of Amherst College. "Even at 21," remembers the writer Sue Dickman, "I could tell that it [Foster Wallace's intelligence] was the kind of smart that made you strange, that it was too much." On 12 September '08, it was, sadly, tragically, too much. We remember a giant.