13 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again

In which we finally conclude our Caribbean Luxury Cruise with David Foster Wallace, involving a drinking game where we drink with each of the 48 footnotes in an action-packed last day of minute-by-minute managed activities, featuring losing at chess to a 9-year-old girl, winning at decktop Ping Pong over a 26-year-old pro, getting punched in the eye, almost throwing up caviar at old ladies, enduring an anecdote on the near-fatal suction powers of the Vacuum Sewage System, and a hypnosis session that generates a trance in DFW about returning to reality, very much the way that reading his essay aloud has been itself, for me, an epic Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory