Omar Meets Hamlet
Ay yo. AyyyyyY YOooooo!
Michael K. Williams, who played Omar Little in The Wire, as Hamlet for a photoshoot by Terry Richardson for Vice magazine.
Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.
Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.
The Worst Sort Of Foreshadowing
Hal Incandenza, speaking to his older brother, Orin, about how he (Hal) dealt with an impossible-to-satisfy shrink after being first on the scene of his father's gruesome death, an apparent suicide.
I even tried telling [the grief-counselor] that Himself was miserable and pancreatic and out of his tree half the time by then anyway . . . that even work and Wild Turkey weren't helping anymore, that he was despondent about something he was editing that turned out so bad he didn't want it released. That the ... that what happened was probably kind of a mercy, in the end.
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest p. 253
Also see...
- Infinite Summer
- Kottke's extensive DFW coverage