the tour

Dee 2022-01-17 08:01:22

When I think of this relationship for 30 to 40 years, I think he can be at ease in every state of mine.
It is not that the person who jumped from the skyscraper is not afraid of falling, but that there is another more terrifying thing that forces him to choose death. This kind of injury is much more serious than the physical injury.
You are still pretending to be an ordinary person, but when people read this book, they think that the author is a brilliant person, or hope that the author is a brilliant person.
Part of me feels that I am great, seeing through all this is just an illusion, I am smarter than many people, and the other part of me feels terrible, because seeing through these makes me unable to live a normal life.
Now it's just me and you, your tape recorder.
Ma Tiantian's loneliness is really a way of living, not for life, not for purpose, but a way to be accustomed and comfortable. Whether it’s modernity or post-modernity, I think there are more and more people of this kind. It’s a good thing. I can think about myself and the world, my social circle of no more than 20 people, and I can love myself. The interests of a lifetime, these are all their own meanings in life.
Another night in Beijing winter night.

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  • Sam 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    Gide said: "You will never know how much effort we have put in to make ourselves interested in life." The brief encounters wonderfully revealed Foster's loneliness, fear of the emptiness of life, and anxiety about life. The conversation is long and trivial, but the sincerity that suddenly appears will make people move deeply and can't help but feel sad. Foster once gave a speech about facing trivial life, about facing life, he finally chose another path.

  • Marianna 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    Hit hard by the last "We are both so young. He wants something better than he has. I want precisely what he has already." The reporter wanted to have as much material as possible, and the interviewee was always worried about misunderstanding and understanding, resonance and suspicion, with an invisible media (a tape recorder) in between. It is rare to meet a few people of the same kind in a lifetime, and the final disappointment makes people infatuated.

The End of the Tour quotes

  • David Lipsky: [final lines] When I think of this trip, I see David and me in the front seat of his car. We are both so young. He wants something better than he has. I want precisely what he has already. Neither of us knows where our lives are going to go. It smells like chewing tobacco, soda and smoke. And the conversation is the best one I ever had. David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely. If I could, I'd say to David that living those days with him reminded me of what life is like, instead of being a relief from it. And I'd tell him it made me feel much less alone.

  • David Foster Wallace: [as both of them open the car door] You didn't think to write where we parked the car?

    David Lipsky: No, I didn't. Okay? Sorry, I fucked up. I'm a fuck up. Not everybody could be as brilliant as you.

    David Foster Wallace: What is with you?

    David Lipsky: What the fuck is with you?