Are you a SNOOT?

David Foster Wallace is; after reading this, I think I am, too. How about you?

Note: The first page is a little off-setting -- it was a lot easier when I read it in Harpers -- so you might just want to skip to page two. Even if you have absolutely no interest at all in the subject, and you probably don't (no, I'm not saying what it us, otherwise you may not click on the link), DFW has a good way of defusing anxieties and drawing you into his subject. As Fat Albert says: "And you might just learn something, too."