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While he inveighed against the use of irony, David Foster Wallace's life was an act of irony: 1) He sought privacy yet published his suicide note in his novel, Infinite Jest; 2) the novel is a 1000 plus polemic against alienation, yet it reveals him as misogynistic, racist and a stalker - blind to those very acts that that caused his own alienation.