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For some beautiful writing on the subject, the ever eloquent David Foster Wallace is someone to look up.

Darwin didn't publish until 1858, when Alfred Wallace had begun to rediscover Darwin's theories.

In Paris we have these too, the famous Wallace Fountains, and most of them just run all the time.

Just prior to his suicide, Wallace suffered an intense, crippling bout of depression, during which his parents flew to Claremont to watch him.

When Wallace’s conviction was also overturned on discrimination grounds in 2013, the judge in his case ordered his release, in view of the fact that Wallace was dying of liver cancer and had only days to live.

To me, it seems like a pretty straightforward recapitulation of the ideas behind cognitive behavioral therapy, which Wallace probably had more than a passing familiarity with.

I know you as Mike Wallace and you know me as Morgan Freeman.

We've got another David Foster Wallace here.

Here is the quote with more context: > Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

I remember reading about the late Bob Wallace (Microsoft) and his experiments with psychedelics (perhaps microdosing) to aid in programming - I thought 2C-B was among those.

What amazes me is that the eternally self-reflective Wallace apparently never considered that the vast majority of Americans, parochial and cosmopolitan alike, never have had any reason to know anything about the layout of the NYC financial district.

Among the more dispiriting aspects of the Wallace canonization is how much it has been built out of his suffering — the way the cult has revived, for precisely the post-therapy, post-Romantic, self-help-soaked culture Wallace described and intermittently deplored, the Romantic picture of the depressive as a kind of keen-eyed saint.

If Ralsky is the "godfather of spam" would that make Sanford Wallace his 3rd cousin, twice removed?

Its got something of a “if you hadn’t read Infinite Jest before Wallace died then you aren’t a true fan” vibe to it.

David Foster Wallace discussed this memorably in his "this is water" speech.

This white guy named Mike Wallace." You don’t say it."

The vindictiveness of the state is perhaps best illustrated in its treatment of Woodfox’s co-defendant, Herman Wallace.

The circumstances leading up to Wallace's death have been documented by his family in great detail, in fact-checked reported stories.

In a 2011 New Yorker essay, Franzen named Wallace’s relationship to his own fame as the central battle of his adult life.