17 Sep 2008 1751H

Considering the lobster

By now everyone’s heard that David Foster Wallace is dead, by his own hand. He was an extremely bright light in contemporary American writing, probably made all the more brighter by the fact his life was so short. Take a gander at his essay, “Consider the Lobster,” for Gourmet magazine in 2004:

The point is that lobsters are basically giant sea-insects. Like most arthropods, they date from the Jurassic period, biologically so much older than mammalia that they might as well be from another planet. And they are—particularly in their natural brown-green state, brandishing their claws like weapons and with thick antennae awhip—not nice to look at. And it’s true that they are garbagemen of the sea, eaters of dead stuff, although they’ll also eat some live shellfish, certain kinds of injured fish, and sometimes each other.

But they are themselves good eating. Or so we think now.

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