/lit/ - Literature

No name regional university after finishing up community college

>>16073779
>Is there anything left in the world for a man to fight for except all the things men have fought for since the beginning of time?

>>15820121
>he collects junk data in his head he will never, ever use and gets mad when other people collect junk data in their heads that they can't ever use
>he feels superior about this for reasons he can never fully explain

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>>12636758
Imagine being this historically and normally illiterate

>>12632299
Yes, 1 anon taking the initiative is going to stop all murricans consuming 24/7 propaganda barrage through mass media.

>>11595068
Struggle in the sense it was used means literally "a very difficult task". And nothing was difficult for George Foster Wallace.
Struggle is growing up poor, not being able to see your dreams through because of financial limitations. Struggle is loss of leg, chronic pain. Struggle is abject poverty and homeless. Struggle is having both parents die in a car accident. Struggle is a real tangible despondency, not "oh man, my life is so good that I need to invent drama by being lovesick over some female author and getting her name tattoo and getting all upset over issues I literally invented".

DFW lived an easy, bourgeois lifestyle.
Rich parents. Actual social life.
Never had to worry about rent once!
Great life.
And yet? Woe-is-me! Boo Hoo!

>David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, to Sally Jean Wallace (née Foster) and James Donald Wallace, and was raised in Champaign, Illinois,[9] along with his younger sister, Amy Wallace-Havens.[10]
>His father is an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
>His mother was a professor of English at Parkland College, a community college in Champaign, which recognized her work with a "Professor of the Year" award in 1996. When Wallace was in fourth grade, the family moved to nearby Urbana, where he attended Yankee Ridge Elementary School and Urbana High School

The complete opposite of struggle.
That's a life of ease. All his problems were created by himself, and all his actions and subsequent medical treatment stemmed from guilt over knowing he was not a self-made man but the brainchild of his professor parents who made him literally, and career wise. Something he never reconciled or accepted. Such individuals normally can be forgiven if they are exceptional, but there was nothing exceptional, interesting, or noteworthy about DFW. A 115 IQ kid, not a prodigy. Just a bland man. The sort of person who peddles intellectual poison, spreading his caustic, unjustly pessimistic approach to life to everyone who reads it.

It leads to a greater philosophical question. Does a life without struggle or aim leads to a literal atrophying of the will? Looking to nature, life itself is a brutal struggle. Remove the struggle, you remove life. Regardless, not the question to provoke here with DFW fanboys, the sort of people who get upset when you discuss philosophy on /lit/.

>>10790837
His audience consists largely of 11 year olds, and this is your first thought. You are beyond pseud, you are just a pathetic faggot.

>>10501170
>I'm so fed up with explaining the point of literature to idiots

>>10443103

>that entire OP

>>8698118
>anyone who dislikes Trump MUST work for CTR

>>8571050
>i don't know what Rizzoli is

>should I read Iliad or Odyssey first?
Well, gee, I sure do wonder! Should I first read a book about a war or a book about the aftermath of the war? Hmm!

Also, regarding the first question, I recommend getting familiar with greek mythology by playing Age of Mythology or reading something like Schwab's collection of greek stories.

>>5033460
>Freud
>not just a crazy man obsessed with pee pee's

I wasn't aware that secular humanism was compatible with being a nazi. but I think describing Lee Stringer–a black dude–as a better author than himself probably disqualifies him.

>>3035210

>this thread

>>2683983

>All pre existentialist philosophy is garbage

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>>2555438

>You know those people I talked about earlier? The ones who act uniformly? Well they all live under "theocracies" too.