Six Months

July 1, 2015 by Matthew Lickona at 1:32 pm

That’s all I’d need to write Lancelot vs. The Pale King: Walker Percy, David Foster Wallace, and the Fight of Your Life. (Okay, that’s a first stab at the title.) But I just finished D.T. Max’s bio of Wallace and the audiobook of The Pale King, and oh my goodness. Why don’t hack film critics get sabbaticals the way academic librarians do?

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Gerard Manley Pointer says

July 1, 2015 at 11:27 pm

The Career You Save May Be Your Own

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- Irrelevant Chris Fogle says
  
  July 1, 2015 at 11:28 pm
  
  TAGGED WITH: CALLED TO ACCOUNT
  
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Quin Finnegan says

July 2, 2015 at 1:10 am

Wait til he gets his PhD. Sky’s the limit at that point.

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Paul S. says

July 3, 2015 at 7:49 pm

I’m imagining Lancelot vs The Pale King in Yellow… (working in some True Detective lore there)

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- Broderick Barker says
  
  July 6, 2015 at 10:24 am
  
  I like where your head’s at. Thinking now it has to be Percival vs. The Pale King, since Percival = Percy and he’s also the knight who saw the Holy Grail (in this case, salvific faith).
  
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  - Paul S. says
    
    July 6, 2015 at 1:15 pm
    
    Unrelated: In last night’s True Detective S02 ep, lovable down-on-his-luck-wannabe-legit-family-man gangster Vince Vaughn stated “its not natural” whilst in an IVF clinic wank room with his wife.
    While I’m reserving judgement on the season till it’s over, I’m definitely enjoying it. (the press has been mostly “its not as good as S01, wah wah”)
    
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