/lit/ - Literature

>>16236804
the internal manifested itself externally

>Writing terrible novel
>Insert obtuse, largely irrelevant, mostly unnecessary reference
>Imagine some scholar publishing an edition of my work in half a century carefully explaining it in endnotes and convincing the reader it was really very clever
I can't stop doing this shit when I write, no matter how much I tell myself it's dumb and making my work worse. Am I the only one? Is this the same narcissistic impulse that led DFW to write like he did?

>Book tells me there's a gun taped behind the toilet in my bathroom and I need to use it to kill John Lennon

Who is Canada?

Still waiting for that anon to poo and write on the wall