David Foster Wallace, Visionary

It’s the mornings after the spider-and-heights dreams that are the most painful, that it takes sometimes three coffees and two showers and sometimes a run to loosen the grip on his soul’s throat; and these post-dream mornings are even worse if he wakes unalone, if the previous night’s Subject is still there, wanting to twitter

—Infinite Jest, 1996

Guess this puts DFW in the Dowd camp, RS…