The Electric Typewriter

Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
5th Sep

Nothing Happened

by David Foster Wallace

Here is a weird one for you. It was a couple of years ago, and I was 19, and getting ready to move out of my folks’ house, and get out on my own, and one day as I was getting ready, I suddenly get this memory of my father waggling his dick in my face one time when I was a little kid. The memory comes up out of nowhere, but it is so detailed and solid-seeming, I know it is totally true.

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