/lit/ - Literature

>>13935325
To make a noose with.

>>13935325
You realize Dave didn’t live long enough to witness Baneposting

Also The Dark Night Rises came out 14 years ago

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>>13935331
Perhaps he was wondering why someone would "shoot the terrible master" before kicking over the chair.

>>13935360
I can't see how either of these two contributions are relevant to the topic.

Never seen this image of dfw before. Thanks OP,

i tried to grow my hair out once. it kept getting in my face and made my entire life miserable. it made me want to kill myself.

i get a #2 all over now. it probably saved my life.

There is a current pop song based on The Pale King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQARKa3E7Q

Silent room, hundred strong some hearing distant Muzak
It's setting the mood
Tedium here, in his cubicle he's doing his work
The same thing daily
Papers and forms, staring concentrating on the ledger
No room for error
Hours on end, takes a dogged man of great endurance
And nobody knows

Nobody will speak a word, at least no speaking out loud
No note-comparing, no jokes told, it's just not allowed
No one lines up to see the numbing endless toil and grind
It takes so much not to snap, not to lose a mind

Here's some white noise for you
For your car and or cubicle
Music, meds and white noise
Ease the pressure down in your crucible

This is the world, you and your job in your space with your data
Your files and your flow charts
And your ten minute break, nobody knows, nobody cares, but you know
You know what you are
Today's frontier man herding, taming an unending paper flood
Guarding the fort from disaster for your people
The brotherhood of tedium in your spartan chair
A hero for our time in the stale office air

Here's some white noise for you
For your pod and or cubicle
Music and meds and the white noise
Ease the pressure down in your crucible

Will the drugs help? A little music? Isometrics
White noise, white noise in your pod, relaxing white noise

Lyrics:

>>13935364
At least you can talk, how depressed are you?

>>13935375
You see, the OP's post is a subtle reference to the baneposting meme.

>>13935325
He had a sweat problem he was self conscious about

>>13935509
He was self conscious about everything

>>13935529
be banged dozens of his students

>>13935541
Source for your information?

>>13935545
trust me bro

>>13935450
What's up with the new barber lingo of 1s and 2s? I'm get ridiculed every where I go for not knowing about this bullshit jargon, it like, dude this is the only time I go out, i just want to masturbate under the hair tarp while being touched by someone real. If I wanted to feel insecure about passing up on barber school I'd get a haircut at my parents. I just want a barber who knows what I mean when I say short, and understands when I ask for lotion.

>>13935717
So true. Thanks for saying it.

>>13935483
it doesn't matter how depressed I am, what matters is how sincere

>>13935694
did...did you bang david foster wallace, anon?

>>13935717
it's not new lingo at all, it's been around for like idk decades at least

>>13935375
you need to leave now

How was /lit/ when The Pale King published?

It was his pussy napkin

>>13936424
The person you're replying to is OP, literally me. If you're not willing to engage with the topic, then I suggest you leave. Promptly.

>>13936465
you can read it yourself, go to warosu for pale king and order by oldest posts first

>>13935325
I took a creative nonfiction course with him 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.

>>13936479
sure thing, boomer

>>13937714
Based and cringe

Does anyone have that pasta about meeting DFW in a minimarket or something like that?

>>13938731
oh, like you're doing now?
huh?
huh?
*closes hand in front of face*