/lit/ - Literature

>>10409748
>This is me. Literally me. No other character can come close to relating to me like this. There is no way you can convince me this is not me. This character could not possibly be anymore me. It’s me, and nobody can convince me otherwise. If anyone approached me on the topic of this not possibly being me, then I immediately shut them down with overwhelming evidence that this character is me. This character is me, it is indisputable. Why anyone would try to argue that this character is not me is beyond me. If you held two pictures of me and this character side by side, you’d see no difference. I can safely look at this character every day and say “Yup, that’s me”. I can practically see this character every time I look at myself in the mirror. I go outside and people stop me to comment how similar I look and act to this character. I chuckle softly as I’m assured everyday this character is me in every way. I can smile each time I get out of bed every morning knowing that I’ve found my identity with this character and I know my place in this world. It’s really quite funny how similar this character is to me, it’s almost like we’re identical twins. When I first saw this character, I had an existential crisis. What if this character was the real me and I was the fictional being. What if this character actual became aware of my existence? Did this character have the ability to become self aware itself?

>>10374145
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy

>>10062197
There was one scene that I liked more than the book, and it was one that PTA innovated. The bit at the end where Bigfoot eats all of Doc's weed was just hilarious to me. Not in the book at all, and funnier than almost every other scene in the movie. But at the same time it almost felt like a spiritual rehash of "I drink your milkshake."

Come to think about it, Punch Drunk Love, There will Be Blood, The Master, and Inherent Vice all center on a relationship between two weird dudes.

>>9373181
By asking that people post their opinions, I am encouraging them to "write" creatively.

>>9204716
Gately does bad things and is penetant.
Pemulis is a sociopath.

A friend of DFW recalls a scene removed from the book that he got in an early manuscript that details pemulis in a truck at a stoplight laying on the horn as a blind man walks by on the crosswalk, scaring the shit out of him, and causing him to convulse on the ground. Pemulis finds this riveting.

Pemulis is literally a more clever version of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkDNyxQlL_0