413K views · Jan 20, 2016 · 50:13 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2020
A reading of David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival and the ethics of boiling lobsters alive. The reading runs about 50 minutes.
Why Hacker News points people here: Linked in threads about lobster welfare as an easy way to take in Wallace's essay.
“here's a video of DFW reading it out”HN comment, 2019
“makes them more enjoyable”
Wallace reads his lobster essay aloud.
Love that whole series of essays in the Consider the Lobster collection - you can also listen to several of them on YouTube and I have to say Wallace’s tone when reading the essays makes them more enjoyable this video
“here's a video of DFW reading it out”
Wallace reads Consider the Lobster.
> They don't have brains or central nervous systems, I would very highly recommend reading David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster . You can either buy the book of the same name which includes other essays or here's a PDF of the original article: link and here's a video of DFW reading it out: this video
“Here's a reminder”
Reminder of the lobster essay.
WOW that's pretty tonedeaf. remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"? Here's a reminder: this video
