/lit/ - Literature

>>21480229
Thank you anon.
I found the based edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmIAbHXr0Y
and then this one https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MyZFxf3Uz-8
BUT I STILL CANT FIND THE DRUNK GUY SHOUTING OUT THE WINDOW NO MATTER HOW FAR DOWN THE RESULTS I SCROLL

>>21430053
The shortest is not the easiest and the easiest is not the shortest. This is partly why I asked for /lit/'s help. But also I wanted to talk about books and the whole partly read phenomenon. Have you read any of the books on this list? What did you think of them?

>>18508262
Based. Thank you friend.
>How many times have I seen the interview? More times than I’d like to share. I once fell asleep to it every night for a week. It was just so calming and evoked a strange temporal comfort, of another time and place where I wasn’t so inundated with trivial information about the world or with ideological predispositions that made me care. You could tell he wanted to either not speak or talk on a point for hours, but the long form interview is the closest thing television got to real informational literature. It’s fantastic. The camera man is a jokester and the interviewer is callously attempting to be genuine only after he forces her to. Their play between preconstructed question and the accidental narrative arc he gives the whole thing is magical. In a twist of irony this interview has had more impact on me than most of his writing. I’ve read lots of his essays and enjoyed them. I’ve tried to read infinite jest twice, both times stopping somewhere between p100-200. His demeanor, his regretful and bashful intellect, it’s all things I wish I could see in myself. I want to be more secluded and smart, but I’m the loud, boisterous and obnoxious fellow at parties everyone either loves or despises. I’ve learned I don’t care much for that life but I’m too deep into my own life to really be able to rewrite my entire personality, and even if I could, wouldn’t it just be a false replication or simulation of who a person wanted to be. I think I’ll watch it to sleep tonight. These past few months have been rough, and DFW in that video is more a friend than any of my personal friendships and relationships have ever been. I hate, and I assume he would go, this idolizing, but I think he gets at it in the interview when he talks about how reading lets you get into the mind of a person more so than we ever will talking to them. I know this may be too sincere or honest for /lit/ and for the dfw meme, but life is just really hard these days. It’s nice to find nice things in the world.

>>18463033
I know frank, dave, john, and steve all post here. Fuck you herbert.

>>18096015
Anything to keep a DFW thread bumped, bud.

>>17621613
It's not good. Half of it is basically unreadable (coincidentally, half of it was written by a woman).

>There are people still being ironic 25 years post-Infinite Jest

>>17517644
Shitty I know