/lit/ - Literature

>>12627562
I want to write a magnum opus and demap myself. Would you guys read it?

>>11628450
No.

>>9655001
her autism reminds me of the famous DFW interview

>>7433020
> there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

"I'm sorry"

>>7270629

>IJ the Victor by a solid margin

glorious

MICHAEL SILVERBLATT: I don't know how, exactly, to talk about this book, so I'm going to be reliant upon you to kind of guide me. But something came into my head that may be entirely imaginary, which seemed to be that the book was written in fractals.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Expand on that.

MS: It occurred to me that the way in which the material is presented allows for a subject to be announced in a small form, then there seems to be a fan of subject matter, other subjects, and then it comes back in a second form containing the other subjects in small, and then comes back again as if what were being described were -- and I don't know this kind of science, but it just -- I said to myself this must be fractals.

DFW: It's -- I've heard you were an acute reader. That's one of the things, structurally, that's going on. It's actually structured like something called a Sierpinski Gasket, which is a very primitive kind of pyramidical fractal, although what was structured as a Sierpinski Gasket was the first- was the draft that I delivered to Michael in '94, and it went through some I think 'mercy cuts', so it's probably kind of a lopsided Sierpinski Gasket now. But it's interesting, that's one of the structural ways that it's supposed to kind of come together.

>In the end, he knew it was all just an Infinite Jest.

David pls

>>6494896
>when you realize they were jesting about u the whole time

JEST

Why the fuck did he keep his hair long for so long

Top five DFW short stories? Mine are --

1. Good Old Neon
2. On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon
3. Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko
4. Another Pioneer
5. Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR

GET OUT OF THIS SITE RIGHT NOW!

I think you would enjoy listening to some interviews by great authors. You really can in less than a minute from now.

David Foster Wallace, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck have worthwhile youtube videos.

Isn't that like the guy who wrote tons of shitty fantasy novels all connected to each other and then died before he could finish the story? So some guy is now doing his work for him.
Probably what's going to happen to GRRM as well.