Blog #4 Consider the Lobster

After reading Consider the Lobster, I am feeling a sense of a disappointment in myself for my lack of attention to detail in my own writing. From extending detail as far out as describing exactly what lobsters are to how they're the insects of the sea, David Foster Wallace leaves nothing to the imagination. I think the most pressing part of his research paper is the examination of whether it is even morally correct to place a living lobster into a boiling pot for our unnecessary desires. He then goes into detail about how lobsters lack a cerebral cortex and cannot register emotional distress and suffering. He lengthens his concerns into multiple inquiries that invites the audience to question the festival and our place in boiling an animal alive. As a research paper, this is quite possibly the most intricate and attentive work I have ever read in my life.