The t in just often drops before hit.
Tour's over. Yeah. That just hit you.The End of the Tour · 2015 — 第 14 / 17 章 · 2'25" · B2
Wallace Fears Liking the Attention, Explained：sleepwalk through
With the tour over, David Foster Wallace tells David Lipsky what he has been afraid of all along: not the attention itself, but 'that I really get to like it.' He dreads becoming a writer who shows up for photos and game shows, and admits he will have to 'decompress' from the attention before he can write again.
あらすじ
Now that the book tour is over, Wallace admits he has been sleepwalking through the past three weeks and will have to feel all of it. He tells Lipsky his real fear is not being watched but getting to like it, turning into the kind of writer who keeps showing up for attention. He dreads the quiet return to a small life.
注目の表現
sleepwalk throughstate of anxietyget to likederive satisfaction from
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このシーンの表現
sleepwalk through
go through without feeling
With the tour over, Wallace says he must feel it all instead of sleepwalking through.
Don't sleepwalk through your twenties.
このシーンの他の表現
- state of anxiety
a condition of worry
- get to like
come to enjoy over time
- derive satisfaction from
get pleasure from
- game show
a TV quiz show
- become a parody
turn into a mock version
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37 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
go through without feeling
With the tour over, Wallace says he must feel it all instead of sleepwalking through.
Yeah. I'm gonna have to kinda feel all of this now, instead of just sleepwalk through it.a great many
Meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do stuff, you're in this constant low-level state of anxiety.a condition of worry
Wallace describes tour life as a constant low-level state of anxiety.
Meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do stuff, you're in this constant low-level state of anxiety.participial phrase: The opening -ing phrase sets the situation for the main clause.
Meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do stuff, you're in this constant low-level state of anxiety.the worst possible outcome
What's the worst that could possibly happen?Stress possibly to underline the worst-case question.
What's the worst that could possibly happen?viewed in that light
I don't wanna be seen that way. Why, would you?get pleasure from
Well, if you're deriving your satisfaction from talking about your work...gerund after preposition: The gerund after from names the source of the satisfaction.
Well, if you're deriving your satisfaction from talking about your work...move about doing
Exactly. There's nothing more grotesque than somebody going around saying, "I'm a writer. I'm a writer. I'm a writer."negative comparative: Nothing more plus adjective than makes the strongest negative comparison.
Exactly. There's nothing more grotesque than somebody going around saying, "I'm a writer. I'm a writer. I'm a writer."the coming few years
If you see me on a game show in the next couple of years, I swear to God...embedded how-clause: The how-clause after about conveys degree rather than asking a question.
To have written a book about how seductive image is, how easy it is to get seduced off of any meaningful path...turn into a mock version
He wrote about the seduction of image and fears becoming a parody of it himself.
What if I become a parody of that very thing?leave by car
You know, tomorrow, you drive away.recover from
I'm gonna have to decompress from all this attention, because it's like gettin'...getting, slurred — Very casual speech spelling; not for writing.
I'm gonna have to decompress from all this attention, because it's like gettin'...The -in' ending links straight into heroin.
it's like gettin' heroin injected into your cortex.real courage — Vulgar slang; only with close friends.
And where I'm gonna need real balls, is to...endure something
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What's really going on
The tour is over, and with the performance of being interviewed finally done, Wallace says the thing he could not say earlier. His fear is precise and strange: not that people will look at him, but 'that I really get to like it.' He describes attention as an addiction — 'like gettin' heroin injected into your cortex' — and worries that the writer of a book about how seductive image is could 'become a parody of that very thing,' appearing on a game show or angling into the back of a photo. Lipsky, the journalist, is the one arguing the other side, that liking an audience is not a crime. But Wallace's dread is about identity: he says he is '34 years old and I'm alone in a room with a piece of paper,' and that is the self he trusts. The scene is the film's quiet thesis, spoken by the man it is about, to the man who will write him down.
Theme
IdentityWallace fears that fame will turn him into a parody of the writer he set out to be.
LonelinessHe pictures his real life as being alone in a room with a piece of paper, and the tour as a drug he must come down from.
このチャプターで学べること
- Fame here is framed as an addiction, not a reward.
- The scariest outcome is liking the attention.
- The speech ends on paper, not on crowds.
- He warns himself against becoming a parody.
発音のポイント
- just hit you — The t in just often drops before hit.
- could possibly — Stress possibly to underline the worst-case question.
- gettin' heroin — The -in' ending links straight into heroin.
What's the worst that could possibly happen?Lipsky's question pushing Wallace to name his fear, which turns out not to be harm but enjoyment.
The worst? That I really get to like it. That's the worst.Wallace's answer: the danger of fame is that he might come to enjoy the attention he distrusts.
that I'm 34 years old and I'm alone in a room with a piece of paper.His image of the honest writer's life, the reality he wants to return to after the tour.
What if I become a parody of that very thing?His fear that writing about how seductive image is could make him the perfect example of it.
このシーンについての質問
Why is Wallace afraid of the tour ending?
He says he has been sleepwalking through it and will now have to feel everything. The end of the tour means he must come down from the attention and face his ordinary life again.
What is Wallace actually afraid of?
Not being watched, but learning to like it. He says the worst that could happen is 'that I really get to like it,' which would turn him into the kind of writer he mocks.
Why does Wallace mention becoming a parody?
He wrote about how seductive image is, and he fears ending up as a living example of it — showing up on game shows and angling into the back of photos.
What does Wallace mean by 'alone in a room with a piece of paper'?
It is his picture of the real writing life and the self he trusts, as opposed to the public figure the tour has been making of him.
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第 1 章once in a generationLipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
第 2 章out of respectDave Wallace Doesn't Drink
第 3 章shape the impressionWallace and Lipsky First Meeting
第 4 章channel surfingWallace on Why We Feel Empty
第 5 章comes with the territoryWallace on Why He Isn't Married
第 6 章in a heartbeatDave Wallace Offers Lipsky a Room
第 7 章security blanketLipsky Asks About the Bandanna
第 8 章about as sexy asWallace Recalls His Eight Days
第 9 章all downhill from hereWallace Reads at The Hungry Mind
第 10 章make eyes at someoneWallace Calls Lipsky's Girlfriend
第 11 章self-absorbedWallace on Being Shy and Egotistical
第 12 章come on to someoneWallace Tells Lipsky to Stay Away
第 13 章fauxWallace and Lipsky's Parking Lot Fight
再生中 · 第 14 章sleepwalk throughWallace Fears Liking the Attention
第 15 章autobiographicalLipsky Asks Wallace About Heroin
第 16 章spiritual crisisDavid Foster Wallace on Depression
第 17 章put my foot downWallace Dances at a Baptist Church第 14 / 17 章 · 残り約 11 分