Harsher in Hindsight/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjf27-uY0Ss&feature=related this interview], David Foster Wallace talks about how, even though there have been hard times in his life, and he doesn't have a clear path or motivation going forward, it's not like he's going to kill himself or anything.

* Before his [[Vigilante Execution]] by Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald was told (jokingly) by the policeman he was handcuffed to that if someone was going to shoot him in the mob of press they'd be walking out into, he hoped that they'd be a good shot. Oswald told the man he was being melodramatic and that nobody was going to shoot him. Shortly after they entered the mob of reporters, Jack Ruby shot Oswald.

{{quote|All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.}}

** To elaborate, the life of his administration, which only lasted one thousand (actually [http://timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=1&d1=20&y1=1961&m2=11&d2=22&y2=1963 1,036]) days, was ended along with his own when Kennedy was sadly assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.