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David Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
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A reading of David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival and the ethics of boiling lobsters alive. The reading runs about 50 minutes.
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Linked in threads about lobster welfare as an easy way to take in Wallace's essay.
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Love that whole series of essays in the Consider the Lobster collection - you can also listen to several of them on YouTube and I have to say Wallace’s tone when reading the essays makes them more enjoyable [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗> They don't have brains or central nervous systems, I would very highly recommend reading David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster . You can either buy the book of the same name which includes other essays or here's a PDF of the original article: [LINK] and here's a video of DFW reading it out: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗WOW that's pretty tonedeaf. remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"? Here's a reminder: [VIDEO]
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