| July 8, Year of VA Linux
You may have read1 some book/short story/node/movie script which you think is wonderful2. It is surreal and violates all sorts of continuity and established standards for writing. You may even interpret it as a radical mindfuck which will awaken people to the ills of society3 and cause them to re-evaluate their lives using a new outlook4.
It may have presented a new concept for making fun of large corporations. The author may have researched all kinds of drugs and peppered them throughout the work as if s/he were on a first name basis with all of them -- in the same way a movie star drops the name of his or her coworkers on the latest Hollywood blockbuster-to-be.
Sure, the piece may obscure what the author is truly trying to express until the end, at which point the beginning5 suddenly makes sense. It may even surprise some of the rest of us to re-read what has been written to see the hidden clues in the first few paragraphs.
The writer may have even documented the work with a number of footnotes6 which have more content and value than the writing itself.
But no matter how hard you try, you are not going to convince us this is the next David Foster Wallace. Go back to your reading group, discuss it a little, and try to come up with a idea of your own which you can argue in a much less mediocre fashion8.
1 Or this (softlink, hardlink, or /msg) may be some sort of thinly-veiled commentary regarding something you yourself have written and have come to the utterly false conclusion that it is to any degree on par with Mr. Wallace's own writing.
2 Wonderful, in this case, obviously is a subjective term.
3 Oops, that's Chuck Pahalniuk, not David Foster Wallace.
4 Not to be confused with the Microsoft7 product of the same name.
5 As opposed to the ending.
6 Or endnotes.
7 A large software company started in Washington (the state) in the late seventies which, with the personal computer revolution of the eighties, became one of the largest corporations on the planet.
8 This isn't meant to be a personal insult to you, just an observation based on reading the analysis you have submitted to our community database. We still love you and the fact that you're taking your time to contribute. However, the things we have read so far seem to be lacking logical conclusions by comparing to more established writers. | 
