/lit/ - Literature

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>>21598784
low iq, thats the reason you are still alive, high iq know better than that, keep living idiot.

Is it /lit/ to embellish your stories when talking to people? for the purpose of making the stories more interesting, not to make yourself look good

why was he so obsessed with loneliness and finding a way to genuinely connect to other people?

Are his accounts of suicidal thoughts more credible because he killed himself? In particular I remember reading that part in IJ where M.P. tries to kill herself. How she walks through town and collected the ingredients to her suicide. That part is great in itself but I cannot read it without thinking of his suicide.

>*banal observation relevant only to niche sections American cultural life delivered with an admixture of wistfulness and sense of alienation that shrouds the banality of the answer in a veneer of profundity* .... and there's something kind of sad about that.
Hack.

>I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

>Hey, look here! LOOK AT ME! I'm DFW, I'm so BIG-BRAINED and IMPORTANT! I'm definitely not a Midwestern MIDWIT and autistic ALCOHOLIC criminally overrated by posterity due to its continued fetish for romanticizing SUICIDE!

>Hey, look here! LOOK AT ME! I'm DFW, I'm so BIG-BRAINED and IMPORTANT! I'm definitely not a Midwestern MIDWIT and autistic ALCOHOLIC criminally overrated by posterity due to its continued fetish for romanticizing SUICIDE!

>leaves out climactic scenes because it's easier to just vaguely describe the aftermath
why does he like to blueball the reader so much?

>leaves out climactic scene because it's easier to just vaguely describe the aftermath
truly a genius of a generation

>tfw read infinite jest without the footnotes
did I fuck up? Is it worth reading the footnotes by itself?

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