Wake Up!

Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 at 11:48 am

David Foster Wallace spoke eloquently on being awake, in Thoreau’s sense of the word.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Or, Life in the Woods)

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