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I used to confuse “further” and “farther,” and,...

Sep 18 2008
I used to confuse “further” and “farther,” and, apparently, I did it quite often. In one of my stories, I’d confused them yet again, and in the margins, he’d written, simply, “I hate you.” I’ve never confused them since.
— From “a thread of memories of David Foster Wallace” on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.