DFW's Host

The discussion part of David Foster Wallace's Host was very interesting, as everyone had one thing in common to say about: "boxes". There were different opinions about the boxes; helpful, misleading, important, negligible, long, short, and so on. Whatever there was to say, the boxes were irritating. The arrows led from words to boxes and the content in the boxes served the purpose of footnotes. Usually i would ignore footnotes unless there was something interesting, but the boxes here were hard to ignore as they were right in the middle of the text. And excluding them felt as if you were missing out on something.
It took me quite a time to do this reading and i would often get mad as the boxes made me pause, but the humor part kept me going.

Bartleby???

Lets tle (tell) something about Bar-tle-by; pretty interesting name and also a very interesting character. for me although the reading part was kind of boring, overall the story was exciting. this is b'coz i wanted to know what was the problem with such a good copy machine. Bartleby, a scrivener and a very good employee in a law firm, all of a sudden goes silent and doesn't fulfill what is expected of him. his "i would prefer not to" attitude surprises his boss and colleagues; he basically denies his proofreading and copying tasks. after losing his job, Bartleby lands in prison and encounters death.
what was the cause of Bartleby's self-isolation?
now the answer to this is open. you can say either it was a natural death or suicide or murder or depressed or whatever you want. but Bertleby is dead and his death is a mystery.