Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "In the Arcade at the Beginning of the End (Today)"
Originally published in Brief Interviews With Hideous Men*. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 75.[Heavily footnoted story; for the sake of quoting, I've simply put the footnotes in brackets.] He had inserted the quarter, or was about to; the silvered disc clung to those final pale inches of his fingers, fleshy whorls brushing metallic ridges, the token more than half-spent, quivering now (the hand, not the obje…