“I needn’t say much about the sanctity of a restroom cubicle where drugs are shared.*”
The asterisk is no typo; this statement (‘I needn’t say much’) is followed by an explanatory footnote, which of course is the joke, both that he’d violate the sanctity of the cubicle and that he’d feel the need to say more in a footnote. Which is a funny joke, the first time you see it, in David Foster Wallace (or in Laurence Sterne, depending on where you went to school).
August 15, 2011, 12:00pm Comments
