Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR"
From Girl With Curious Hair (1989). Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 91.[The Pale King will be released in 17 days. I'll be re-reading Wallace's short stories until then.] Though many of Wallace's ideas recur -- and you'll see thematically similar stuff to this story as we pass to Oblivion -- the mode of each story is fresh; knowing what's going to happen, he seems to be saying, doesn't make the need to hear i…