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As a kid growing up in Illinois, David Foster Wallace invented a game called "Captain Phlegm and his trusty sidekick, Goat Bile," which he refused to let his little sister play. Amy Wallace-Havens remembers her big brother as "benevolently sadistic" and "the best listener I have ever met in my life."
As a kid growing up in Illinois, David Foster Wallace invented a game called "Captain Phlegm and his trusty sidekick, Goat Bile," which he refused to let his little sister play. Amy Wallace-Havens remembers her big brother as "benevolently sadistic" and "the best listener I have ever met in my life."