Originally published in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 76.You may have noticed by now that many of Wallace's stories don't exactly end. After watching the author struggle within the fiction of "Octet," the logic behind this becomes clearer: to end a story is to, in some way, resolve it; in turn, this can be said to then absolve the reader of any obligation to come to terms …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:46PM on April 9, 2011