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Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:31:19 2010 No.1233281 [Reply] [Original]

>go to bookstore, buy "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" by david foster wallace
>excellent read, i enjoy his nonfiction more than his fiction
>read bio on back
>"He lives in Bloomington, Illinois."

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:33:19 2010 No.1233287 zombie dfw for Halloween this year

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:36:19 2010 No.1233294 >>1233287 Tennis shoes, bandanna, granny glasses, turtleneck, BRAAAAAIIINNSSSS

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:38:19 2010 No.1233299 He moved to California and New York at different points of his adult life. But what's wrong with Bloomington, Illinois?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:41:19 2010 No.1233309 i actually live 10m away from the pomona colleges he taught at, ive visted them a couple time

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:43:19 2010 No.1233316 File: 10 KB, 259x194, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1233299 Srzly gaiz, wat's wrong with Bloomington, Illinois?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:51:19 2010 No.1233334 File: 408 KB, 484x548, zombiedfq.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1233294 bandanna, check.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:53:19 2010 No.1233339 >>1233334 You need to be cooler.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 18:56:19 2010 No.1233342 >>1233339 Can't do anything about that.

>>	Implying !!OwMMiDsuHLo Sun Oct 24 19:02:19 2010 No.1233353 >>1233281 I swear, whenever I'm reading his stuff, I'm like, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS GUY DO A READING SOMEWHERE. I don't know why I always forget the fact that he's pushing up daisies.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 19:11:19 2010 No.1233381 >>1233353 From the looks of it, he seemed to do a lot of readings, and now /lit/ is crying that they never got to see him while he was alive.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 19:12:19 2010 No.1233385 >>1233281 And at the end of the bio "Turn 360 and hang yourself"

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 19:23:19 2010 No.1233412 what's wtih all these dfw threads, is it always like this here?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 19:25:19 2010 No.1233417 >>1233385 see >>1233410 are we cross-threading now?

>>	Tim Sun Oct 24 19:26:19 2010 No.1233423 Oh yeah, THAT was the name of that essay I read by him! Love that shit. Probably one of my favorite things I've read ever.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 19:30:19 2010 No.1233434 >>1233381 >>1233353 If it makes you feel better, he said in an interview that he hates reading his stuff out loud, and feels that it wasn't meant for that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 23:19:19 2010 No.1233894 The fact that he managed to spend a decade in Bloomington-Normal without offing himself is proof that brain chemistry is a truly unpredictable and untamable beast

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 25 13:20:07 2010 No.1234964 seriously, what's wrong with Bloomington?

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