despite Michiko Kakutani’s Books > Books of the Times | ‘Oblivion’: Life Distilled From Details, Infinite and Infinitesimal” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/01/books/01KAKU.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1086188415-Na7lApEJNYH9OTtA BjRkA”>panning of David Foster Wallace’s new Oblivion i still really, really want that book more than anything. you can send it to me for my birthday, which is in FOUR MORE DAYS. if not, just send flowers i don’t mind.