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Re:The Titanic Compared With a Modern Cruiseship (2014) by dredmorbius on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:28AM (#20547711)
You might relate to David Foster Wallace's assessment: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_...

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Re:The Titanic Compared With a Modern Cruiseship (2014) by antiterra on Sunday July 28, 2019 @04:21PM (#20549636)
Then there’s Michael Ian Black’s counterpoint: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/travel/cruises-are-awesom...
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Re:The Titanic Compared With a Modern Cruiseship (2014) by JabavuAdams on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:32PM (#20548355)
If David Foster Wallace was so wise, how come he killed himself? :(

I miss his writings.

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Re:The Titanic Compared With a Modern Cruiseship (2014) by dredmorbius on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:36PM (#20548384)
Wisdom is not anticorrelated with profound depression, unfortunately.
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