Loops of self-consciousness ...

... Robert Potts reviews The Pale King by David Foster Wallace in the TLS.

Wallace was a formidable philos-ophy student, as well as an impressive junior tennis player and linguistics enthusiast; he wavered between philosophy and creative writing, to the extent that his supervisor Jay Garfield comments “I thought of David as a very talented young philosopher with a writing hobby, and did not realize that he was instead one of the most talented fiction writers of his generation who had a philosophy hobby”.