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matthouston · « **Reply #9285 on:** October 27, 2014, 03:58:20 PM »

Post fifty.

Maow · « **Reply #9286 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:52:04 AM »

In 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again',

Maow · « **Reply #9287 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:52:20 AM »

originally commissioned and published by Harper's magazine,

Maow · « **Reply #9288 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:52:43 AM »

David Foster Wallace describes his time aboard the Celebrity Cruises vessel MV Zenith.

Maow · « **Reply #9289 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:53:06 AM »

His experience,

Maow · « **Reply #9290 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:53:27 AM »

as the title might suggest,

Maow · « **Reply #9291 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:54:00 AM »

was not an overwhelmingly positive one,

Maow · « **Reply #9292 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:54:41 AM »

but it did result in a memorable and widely read essay that remains among his most popular pieces of non-fiction.

Maow · « **Reply #9293 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:54:58 AM »

In it,

Maow · « **Reply #9294 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:55:16 AM »

he describes a number of attributes of the cruise ship,

Maow · « **Reply #9295 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:55:58 AM »

a few of which I will discuss below.

Maow · « **Reply #9296 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:56:13 AM »

In particular,

Maow · « **Reply #9297 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:56:31 AM »

I am interested in the Zenith as the embodiment of a corporate construct;

Maow · « **Reply #9298 on:** October 28, 2014, 07:58:04 AM »

Wallace's description of its true nature in relation to the former;

Maow · « **Reply #9299 on:** October 28, 2014, 08:00:14 AM »

and the ship as it relates to the human transcendence of death.