{"id":2267,"date":"2008-09-22T11:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/david-foster-wallace-one-more.html"},"modified":"2008-09-22T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T11:05:55","slug":"david-foster-wallace-one-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/david-foster-wallace-one-more.html","title":{"rendered":"David Foster Wallace: One More Moment of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"david_foster_wallace.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/david_foster_wallace.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Though my fellow blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/dfw-rip-david-foster-wallace-r.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patton Dodd already so beautifully eulogized<\/a> writer David Foster Wallace&#8217;s early death, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/david-foster-wallaces-religion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul O&#8217;Donnell pointed readers to a wonderful piece called &#8220;Roger Federer as Religious Experience&#8221;<\/a> reprinted by The New York Times last week in Wallace&#8217;s honor, I can&#8217;t help but devout one more small moment on Idol Chatter to this strange, quirky, postmodern philosopher-writer.<br \/>\nThis Sunday&#8217;s New York Times has a rather wonderful ode to Wallace&#8217;s life and work&#8211;yet another beautiful eulogy not to be missed&#8211;this time by A.O. 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