Wallace was wondering whether he hadn’t become a literary statue, ‘the version of myself’ as he wrote to a friend at the time, ‘that I want others to mistake for the real me.’ … He was now frozen by his own need to be the person others saw him as. They could let go of it more easily than he could. And since the success of Infinite Jest the problem had gotten worse, so that he feared the ‘slightest mistake or miscue’ would knock the statue down. The prospect terrified him.
D. T. Max’s Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
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