Dec 05 2008
letter from David Foster Wallace 7/19/1999
my husband at the time tore the letter and envelope in half to use as scratch paper. I received a second note from DFW a few months later. At that time my mother used the envelope as scratch paper, too; but at least she didn’t tear it in half.
No one has used my personal correspondence as scratch paper before or since then. It is hard to not extrapolate.
