Summary: Jim Halpert is a high school English teacher starting a new life at a new school in a new town.
I'm breaking my own rule about extensive notes.
The inspiration for this story came from an interview with John Krasinski wherein he supposed that if he hadn't become an actor he might be a high school English teacher.
Since September 12, I have done little outside of reading random and uncollected stories and testimonies and tributes to David Foster Wallace. All of it has brought me back to some of my earliest and purest feelings about writing. Anyone familiar with his work will recognize what I've borrowed. Yes, there are footnotes, a bandana, a dog named Jeeves and subtler stuff intended as an homage and thanks.
Lovefool, my beta, my friend, this one's for you.
1. Shipping Out by Sweetpea [Reviews - 32] 
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“Also, there was this business of crying for no reason, which wasn’t painful but was very embarassing and also quite scary because I couldn’t control it.”
(from “The Planet Trillaphon” by David Wallace, 1984. The Amherst Review.)
2. Fictional Futures by Sweetpea [Reviews - 11] 4 (2664 words)
He was not a hypocrite, just broken and split off like all men…What if he has no earthly idea what love is? What would even Jesus do?
(from “Good People” by David Foster Wallace. The New Yorker; Feb. 5, 2007.)
3. The Nature of Fun by Sweetpea [Reviews - 16] 10 (4655 words)
"Barry Dingle, cross-eyed purveyor of bean sprouts, harbors for Myrnaloy Trask, operator of Xerox and regent of downtown Northampton's most influential bulletin board at Collective Copy, an immoderate love."
- From "Order and Flux in Northampton" by David Foster Wallace. Published in Conjunctions, 1991.
(Worlds collide! Are they brief interviews or talking heads? And we meet Pam Beesly...or a Pam who might've been if there had never been a Dunder Mifflin. Never been a Roy.)
4. This is Water by Sweetpea [Reviews - 11] 6 (2284 words)
"Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.”
(David Foster Wallace, from an interview published in Boston Phoenix, May 1996)
5. Epilogue by Sweetpea [Reviews - 20] 11 (556 words)
"I wanted to write something that would make somebody say, `Holy shit, I've got to read this,' and then seduce them into doing a certain amount of work."
(David Foster Wallace on Infinite Jest)
