it loved to happen

Finally, know that an unshot skeet’s movement against the vast lapis lazuli dome of the open ocean’s sky is sun-like—i.e. orange and parabolic and right-to-left—and that its disappearance into the sea is edge-first and splashless and sad.

David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”; offered here (warning: PDF) as a eulogy for DFW in his own words. The link contains eulogies from Don DeLillo, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, and others.