david foster wallace was depressed by karen green

This is just incredible. You know what I do most on this blog? Besides blogging, which I don't do too often anymore, I am checking the stats to see how many and which and where and what led them here, people (is this a legit sentence anymore?) find their way to my site.

In the very first weeks, there was always some guy from Denmark on my site, actually checking daily what I wrote and what not. He ceased (maybe he deceased) doing that. The post that was read most often on my site, is this one about DFW, Karen Green and MZD and guess how people come to surf on it.
Someone actually googled: david foster wallace was depressed by karen green. And take a look at the links google gives for this search. There's not only "David was a big sweater" but also, and, well, you can check it out, a guy that tries to convince you that "Roger Federer killed David Foster Wallace."
He's somehow paralleling Federer's not so good performance of 2008 to DFWs equally not so good performance of 2008, which led to his suicide on September 14th, and well, somehow, Federer is a lousy saviour after all, and won the US Open on September 13th 2008. The argument goes something like this: In his piece about Federer, Wallace idealized Federer as the saviour, yes, Jesus Christ or GOD himself (does the idea of GOD contain a self, anyway?). Although Federer sucked bad, the whole year, he finally nailed the US Open and let's see, what our little friend on the other side of the internet has to say about it:

Federer would win the US Open on September 13th, but it was likely too late for redemption. God's immanence on Earth had been retracted, the age of miracles was over. DFW was found hung the next day.

 I would like to add the opinion that Federer's win was actually thought of  by DFW as the second coming of christ and so he subsequently hanged himself the next day to see if he was already dead. Jesus!

DFW, Karen Green and MZD

I just found this in a Newsweek article considering the David Foster Wallace archive at the Ransom Center in Austin, Texas:

After his suicide, Nadell drove out to join Wallace’s widow, Karen Green, who was eager to move out of a haunted house.

What struck me immediately upon reading Infinite Jest (upon a myriad of other things) - I had read House of Leaves before that - was the connection between Wallace's superdrug DMZ and Danielewski's initials MZD. Infinite Jest is, through its footnotes, framed inside a network of drugs. House of Leaves - through Johnny's introduction - also dives right into it. The other thing is the Karen Green connection.

Does anyone know more about if Wallace and Danielewski knew each other or what each other's work meant to them? Did Karen and Dave already know each other before House of Leaves was published? This Guardian article about Karen gives at least the hint that they first met after he published "The Depressed Person" in Harper's Magazine in 1998, which would later become part of his short story collection "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men". With House of Leaves being first published in 2000 this gives definitely time for character name corrections on MZD's account.
In that article is something else, very remarkable I think, in it:

Green became an amateur expert on the diagrammatic language of psychiatric records: "That's a depressed person's brain," she says of a little grouping of Technicolor splashes. "It's coded differently."

And it reminds me of how DFW always used to speak and write about the hardwiredness of clinical depression and addiction. Karen Green also says this, which I will leave without a comment (although, isn't the bare fact that I say I will give no comment, a very strong comment in itself? Whatever, the autopsy report is right here):

"What do you do when your husband's autopsy report is on the internet and is deemed a subject worthy of fucking literary criticism?"

Regarding publishing of the unfinished The Pale King, she remarks:

"The notes that he took for the book and chapters that were complete, were left in a neat pile on his desk in the garage where he worked. And his lamps were on it, illuminating it. So I have no doubt in my mind this is what he wanted. It was in as organised a state as David ever left anything."

and also:

One of Green's many fears for the publication of The Pale King is that it will be read as an extended suicide note, as an explanation for the ending that Wallace gave himself.