David Foster Wallace
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Who the hell is this guy? This might help (wikipedia). Don’t worry, I’ll wait until you get up to speed.
I had never heard of him until today when I read an entry over at geekinheels. The author there posted a quick little article about how she found a neat little web app that analyzes a sample of text and tells you what famous author you most write like. When she did it with her blog entries, it spat out Stephen King most often. This is what I got more than 50% of the time:
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
I got a smattering of others, but apparently this David Foster Wallace character was quite influential. I feel like reading his stuff, but it might be kind of like masturbation at this point. Like discovering you’re actually a clone, finding your seed person, and making out with them or something.
Wait, what?
Homer Simpson Clone A: I love you Homer.
Homer Simpson Clone B: No, I love you, Homer.