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RIP Ron Edition
>>12649031

Contain your autistic rage everyone, this is a bully free positive thread

This week we read and discuss sections 10-21

Strawpoll to see where everyone who wants to read along is in terms of their experience with David Foster Wallace (mostly just for fun now seeing as it was originally supposed to gauge interest):
https://www.strawpoll.me/17340889

Reading schedule (stolen from the Pale Winter group read on The Howling Fantods)
>Week 1: (2/17 - 2/23) Sections 1-9
>Week 2: (2/24 - 3/2) Sections 10-21
>Week 3: (3/3 - 3/9) Section 22
>Week 4: (3/10 - 3/16) Sections 23-27
>Week 5: (3/17 - 3/23) Sections 28-45
>Week 6: (3/24 - 3/30) Sections 46-50, Notes and Asides

Previous thread:
>>12647326

>> No.12655054

ded?

>> No.12655060

>>12655054
Bruh its sunday morning. I'm gonna do some reading here and I'll come back to ruin chapter 22 later ;^) no but srs post some real content fucko rather than ask if its dead

>> No.12655064

>>12655060
I'll make sure to never bump a thread with any phrase other than 'bump' in the future in order not to hurt you.

>> No.12655090

>>12655064
THAS RIGHT

>> No.12655132

Type of thing

>> No.12655176

>>12655132
squeezed my shoes

>> No.12655383
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12655383

>they're still reading it

>> No.12655421

>>12655383
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>> No.12655484

>>12654450
At this point in the book I'm a little uneasy at how many of his acknowledged trick he's repeating. The whole interview section is a lot like the series of complaints to Gately used to establish the rehab house setting in IJ, the author's voice bit is like Good Old Neon, the sweating is familiar, the list of illnesses too and there's a shadow of the Mario character in the incorrigibly well behaved boy.

In some ways it's like the beginning of the same book but better - less goofy anyway. Still, I was hoping it'd be more different.

>> No.12656109

>>12655176
primed for a fatherly shoe squeezing

>> No.12656122

>>12656109
followed by a wholesome family tittypinching

>> No.12657014

>>12655484

I don't know if you've gotten to the big Meredith Rand scene but she's very, very, very similar to Joelle from IJ.

>> No.12657412

>>12657014
I would disagree.
Aside from their overwhelming beauty they have little else in common aside from attraction to odd men, Meredith is a much more realistic character however.

>> No.12657443

In the previous thread (i missed) someone made this post:
>I cant think anyone really believes that today's so-called 'information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.
>So what's it about?

I would say that it's about masking the disgusting facts of life, that it is suffering, pointless etc.

>> No.12658834

bump

>> No.12659605

>>12658834
>squeezes ur shoes

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>> No.12661076

>>12657443
Oh great, this faggot's back. Thread abandoned.

>> No.12661090

>>12661076
Oh great, this faggot's back. Thread abandoned.

>> No.12661256

>>12661076
He's the only one that's contributed to the thread in the past 16 hours

>> No.12661349

I feel a little foolish asking this, but how much of the autobiographical information about DFW in the book is true? I don't actually know much about his life.