Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "Little Expressionless Animals"
From Girl With Curious Hair (1989). Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 97.[In honor of David Foster Wallace's pending, posthumous novel, The Pale King, I'll be spending the weeks until then re-reading his short stories. Read a lengthy excerpt of this story in The Paris Review.] Griffin whispers and the shiny man rises. "Merv posits that this force, ladies, gentleman, is the capacity of facts to transcend their i…