/lit/ - Literature

mmmhahah
splash around in the water
people being inconsiderate jerks are just having a bad day
I can tell snarky jokes but you also have to take me sincerely as well
dip your feet into the water
mmmhahah

I started reading Hitler. His writing is pretty bad, but I get what he's saying. I like how he speaks in 2nd person. Are the Jews really that awful?

>>9407321

Couldn't it just be added to the sticky?

"Is ____ worth reading?" Gets you a bane.

I love how that cover triggered DFW so hard.

"Wallace mentions that he hated Infinite Jest's original cover. He said that it looked like the safety booklet on an American Airlines flight. "This was my major complaint about the cover of the book...The cloud system, it's almost identical."

what was he trying to tell us?

>>8893686

>>8732742
eh

>Eschaton is the most complicated children’s game anybody around E.T.A.’d ever heard of. No one’s entirely sure who brought it to Enfield from where. But you can pretty easily date its conception from the mechanics of the game itself. Its basic structure had already pretty much coalesced when Allston’s Michael Pemulis hit age twelve and helped make it way more compelling. Its elegant complexity, combined with a dismissive-reenactment frisson and a complete disassociation from the realities of the present, composes most of its puerile appeal. Plus it’s almost addictively compelling, and shocks the tall.

Bump. Thanks for replies so far.

bumping with DWF

>>8611276
nvm, the other way around

>'Personally, Jim, I think he'd be better off with his old midsized graphite stick than that large head the creepy Dunlop guy got him to switch to.
>'Stice, being the younger player out there, he's grown up with the extra-large head. A large head is all The Darkness knows.
>'You could say Stice was born with a large head, and that Incandenza's a man who's adapted his game to a large head.

That's got to be the most oblique Bane joke I've ever read. How did DFW sneak it in 16 years before the movie was made?

"David Foster Wallace struggled with inappropriate sexual behavior."
Is there any proof of this?

ITT make synonyms for common anaphorisms you see on this website or IRL.

I'll start:

Go back to /pol/: Ignorance is bliss

>>7978290
Perhaps you haven't been on /lit/ long enough:
>http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf

>good at sports
>good at academics
>good at writing
>good at singing
>
>commits suicide

what a punk

>prescriptive [Politically Correct English] is not just silly but ideologically confused and harmful to its own cause. —DFW

As a fellow liberal, this has got to be the sanest essay on English usage I've ever read.

>http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf

>>7755041
The very last sentence (not the footnoted one) was much better, tb quite h.

Does doing something or traveling somewhere with the intention of later writing about the experience make the experience itself, and thus whatever you later write about it, insincere? If so, does acknowledging that conundrum in the writing offset the insincerity or does it just put you into wibbly wobbly oscillation zone?

tl;dr does the ride ever end?

>whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. —DFW, "Host"

Has our Meme Supreme surpassed ideology itself?

The meme lives on. Listen to this interview (only the first half is about "Smithy"):

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAF5OgxN1d0

Thoughts on his thoughts, especially toward the end, or other recommended short fiction by him (I recently read Good Old Neon and The Soul is not a Smithy, looking for more).

>>6656624
Someone with photoshop skills do a shot of sad pepe floating in space infront of earth, holding a book, and wojak floating behind him with his helmet off
bonus points for a destroyed earth with "IDENTITY POLITICS" and "DEGENERACY" exploded into the surface

>>6283569
>OP left the thread