/lit/ - Literature

He felt 4chanate to be in our presence

When did you realise that 4chan is the Infinite Jest?

>>12171499
>this is 4channel, this is 4channel
What the fuck did he mean by this?

>>12171499
>>12171557
>this is reddit, this is memes
fuck what was he on about?

I'm sorry that people do this to your memory, David

I will never not laugh at the greatly deserved ridicule of this hack fraud. Why bother reading someone who couldn't even live with himself?

The only sincere moment in the life of David Foster Wallace was when he kicked away the chair. The rest of his life was a lie, the new sincerity was a joke whose punchline was the creaking of a leather belt around the rafter.

His literary career was a menagerie of self help lies told to keep his depression at bay - the audience pussy and drugs were the ghosts at that feast of hypocrisy.

The depression was warranted because behind all the gimmicks and the self awareness and the bandannas was no discernible talent.

>I'm seated on a board, surrounded by pseuds and faggots. This is a blue 4channel forum /lit/ - Literature-and-for-whatever-reason-Philosophy, intellectually-decrepit, liberal-infested, mind-numbed, insulated from the creative thinking by its echo chamber and insincere memery. I am here.

>>12171651
based
>>12171680
yikes!

>>12171499
>>12171624
I just watched this and I spent the entire video repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.

I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 3 minutes it was so painful.

>Ayy quirky sweating author lmao
If you liked it you're in the wrong place

I took a creative nonfiction course with DFW at Ponoma back in '94. We weren't allowed to show anyone our essays outside of the class for some reason. He seemed naturally intelligent, didnt need to look at any notes or textbooks or prepare for any lectures, he just knew his stuff and was super casual.

I saw him talking to a girl on campus one day. He uncharacteristically wore a Fila sweatsuit, the kind that looks like it's made from the same material as parachutes, and trainer sneakers with a matching bandana. That was his pussy hunt outfit apparently. Several times a week, same outfit, I'd see him hitting on women in it. I once saw him wearing it while carrying an identical outfit from the dry cleaners, he had like 4 sets of same Fila sweatsuit.

I asked him about it in class and he said we aren't allowed to discuss anything unrelated to class while inside class, the same way we can't show anyone outside of class our essays. A student called out "but Dostoevsky isn't in this class and last week you talked about replicating his black tea obsession to test its affects on your own writing". Wallace stared blankly at the student with dead eyes for 30 seconds in dead silence then said "you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so." and pushed up his glasses with his index finger.

I remember telling myself this guy will either be super successful or kill himself.

>>12171712
Post the one about him criticizing a black student's ebonics.

>>12171712
Lol'd

https://youtu.be/yi1RHrDtMsk

>>12171887
John Green is the successor to DFW narratively, thematically, and socially. DFWfags are really John Green fans.

>>12171651
>>12171680
>>12171699
>>12171712
If these are an indicator of the complex shitposting on this board then I need to post here more often.

>>12172333
I'm glad you enjoyed it, reddit

>>12172352
Your reply is reddit it wasn't even cleverly written

>>12171651
t. NPC

>>12172363
well, you would know all about that seeing as youre fresh off the boat from reddit

>>12172399
takes one to know one, eh?

>>12172558
I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

>>12172566
Well you're their biggest customer

>>12171712
nice larping
well actually its a pasta but either way, fake and gay

>>12171680
>liberal-infested
What have you been smoking? This place is 99% alt-right pseudo-intellectual filth.

>>12171680
>creative thinking
>conservatives

>>12171499
>tfw I look just like dfw

>>12172843
That's pretty disgusting

>>12171557

>>12171712
Okay, which Reddit sub did you copypaste this from?

>>12172898
Not him, but that pasta was all over all of the DFW threads last year.

>>12172710
>>12172718
>t. liberal infestation

>>12172933
It's in my opinion, the ultimate sign of newfagness when someone claims that 4chan is a primarily conservative board. Do they not remember 2005 where /b/ constantly trolled far right sources like stormfront? Sure there was always a cranky racist vibe overhead, but for the most part this was irony, a release. In the years after the whole chanology shit, newfound public awareness mixed with misunderstanding to draw in a lot of paranoid loons, especially to boards like /pol/.
TLDR, it's definitely more of an ironic, libertarian, weeb kinda vibe

>>12172718
I'd rather have dull conservatives than pseudo-intellectual hacks.

4channel memes this faggot so much that I gave in and got a copy of IJ expecting Joyce levels of fartsniffing and self-indulging prose. What I got was simplistic, boring prose rife with endless namedropping and metaphoric imagery on the level of my diary circa when I was 14 desu. One of the earliest chapters describes a (non) recovering addict fidgeting as he waits for what he believes to be the batch for his last drug-fueled trip (the author makes sure to beat you over the head that this is NOT gonna be his last trip). As it happens, DFW continuously describes a cockroach darting in and out of the hole. This is where I dropped any notion of taking the book seriously, and read the rest of it as a fine shitpost.

>>12172636
*all time best seller

>>12172333
the third one's a tv pasta

>>12172333
>I rub my buttered belly on the screen, as I think we all do sometimes

>>12172956
It's a contrarian vibe.