/lit/ - Literature

>>7879250
I was a moron and read Wallace to see what all the fuss was about, including the entirety of IJ and I have come to the conclusion that I largely am not a fan, particularly of his prose works and short stories. Despite thinking he is a big meme, I found some of the essays sober, coherent and actually kind of fun to read too. I'd say the ones he did in Consider the Lobster are probably his best.

can someone do this with GR?

>>7522292
Say that to my face, bitch

Is calling things "a meme" now a meme? And if so, have we trapped ourselves forever in an infinite spiral of hypocrisy, disparaging memes with a smug irony while basking in the meme-ification of this very same irony? The animalistic sense of belonging to a secret society of sorts, an invisible community perennially backing you, your humor, your very existence, a new social hierarchy in which those who meme are omniscient? Will we be forever doomed to an inner falsehood, a subliminal repression of our desire to meme manifesting itself as Freudian slips, pseudo-memes, and a delusional sense of superiority, believing that we have transcended this hierarchy when we have in fact gone full-circle...ever returning to the center of the mandala, the meme, the pepe, the dfw?
>"And when you gaze long into a meme, the meme also gazes into you." - Friedrich Meme-cha, September 11th, 2001

>>7462392
>writing a novel is good because it gives job when it's adapted in a movie

>>7433015
>anything by David Foster Wallace
>This subway reader is a deep thinker and a lover of discussion. They're prone to late nights talking about the deep fabric of life and what makes us humans tick. This person is a fan of good arguments and isn't afraid to get passionate about what they believe.
>mfw

>>7404831
>But those rich people must have worked hard to get to that uni.

daddy made me take the SATs 317 times

daddy flew me around the country to do activist internships

daddy groomed me to write good application essays

daddy put me in the private school where i had a macbook and organised kwanzaa raffles for homeless shelters

daddy made sure i got at least a B+ average in private high school english lit where we read 17 pages of emily dickinson and i had to write an essay about social issues

yale was my first choice but [private seven sisters college] is good too

would you like to see my tumblr

judith butler was very influential on my work

i was moon princess of the gender equity symposium four years running

my ideas intersect substantially with activism

would you like to see my twitter

>i would like to restart reading again
>restart
>again

Besides Oblomov and Nausea, what are the best books about lethargy/apathy?

>>7299913

nice blog post

>>6487597

I already did get there. Check out my opening sentence, you massive faggot:

Even I (you can call me ishmael), had enjoyed the watery part of the world, especially those areas where the ship can sink at that critical moment when the captain loses his sense of reality. But the foreign waters, bounded by whaling encyclopedias and preachers and retarded by the 14 tons of the whale's fury had rustled the shy countenance of the whale's penis, had it been discernible.

r-rate me

>>6270513

>dfw he doesn't realise dfw-posting is anti-shit-posting

>>6225371
>I've heard at least 400

that's not much better mate

that's basically nothing

I'm guessing that's probably like 200 artists and 2 albums each on average? Again, literally nothing. Nothing you say has any weight.

>>6222789
his perspiration is even greater than the master!

>>6192906

>Implying dfw didn't have a huge marijuana addiction

"this is now a David Foster Wallace memes and David Foster Wallace reaction images thread,"

the David Foster Wallace said!

>>6184159

>He thinks he can discuss weeaboo shit on /lit/

>>6176510

tfw I am an oscilloscope

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I made this metamodern sine wave for you

>he doesn't like meme authors

>He sleeps with his graduate students. He sleeps with his undergrads. He cruises recovery meetings for hookups, preying on the newly sober