Jason Waggoner

“Marathe had settled back on his bottom in the chair. ‘Your U.S.A. word for fanatic, “fanatic,” do they teach you it comes from the Latin for “temple”? It is meaning, literally, “worshipper at the temple.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I know bashing, Pat, and this was unabashed bashing at its most fascist.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Marathe said, ‘This, is it not the choice of the most supreme importance? Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“They never doubt the difference—they just ponder it. It’s like a kind of idolatry of uniqueness. It’s unvarying and kind of spirit-killing for a Staffer to watch, that the only way your addict ever learns anything is the hard way.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest