/lit/ - Literature

>>22189769
dfw was not sincere. sincerity tend to be bland, sappy or just terrible and crazy. dfw try to put an overarching academic know-it-all coldness in everything he write. i talk in a pure instintive way, his writing appear clever and brilliant in some places but never really sincere because the narrator appreciate too much a self awareness, precisely what he criticize about irony is in all his writings, his reluctance to appear really sappy and bland and intellectualize every sappy and bland thought he have as some grandiose platitudes about humanity. i dont know, sincerity is henry miller, some bukowski, jean genet, i know. they tend to be messy, but thats what sincerity is about. dfw whole persona shine through his writing as too vain to be sincere. we all are vain in some way or another, that dont make you a bad writer or even a bad person, im just pointing out that sincerity is not one of this attributes.
>>22189714
sincerity in real life it always betray you too. you should try it and you inevitably understand that sincerity is uncomfortable and inopportune almost always. you probably would argument that sincerity is not saying whatever you feel/ think, which is the first step to justify your own insincerity and why you probably would be offended when you see an unfiltered sincerity in real life. which comes to your first notion that sincerity is only for real life with real people and real situations that probably are situations and people who are suited to you.