/lit/ - Literature

right now I'm doing some Dave posting

>>12299524
I jump in a taxi and say “The library, and step on it”

>>11961488
>those last four digits

>>11928714
>dfw
>sarcastic

>>11928143
I’m guessing English isn’t your first language, friend, because I don’t know what you mean.

>>11915201
Stop being a contrarian about Moby Dick

>>11910817
>Ulysses
>Autogynephilia

>ywn post in a late 90's chatroom with DFW

http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jest11a.html

>writer is a dead white man

>tfw you just read the story where this appears

>>10453579
>spend years of your life studying music
>listen to metal
the absolute STATE of that guy

I ordered a German translation of Infinite Jest a couple of weeks after I started lurking here, and it's been standing on my shelf unread and still plastic-wrapped ever since.

>>10347208
And but so it is this, I think, that makes corn-poop-jokes' wit inaccessible to people whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance) It's not that people don't "get" corn-poop-joke humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get—the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central corn-poop-joke—that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from pooping. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our place to poop. It's hard to put into words up at the blackboard, believe me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" corn-poop-jokes.

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