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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sQrxAorDo

Doesn't he mean "anterior to"?

>> No.2508756

I think what he means is that he's dead.

>> No.2508761

What he means is that he hasn't any talent.

>> No.2508766
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2508766

This book reads like a closet homosexual's notebook of writing exercises. Is there anything good in it?

>> No.2508783

>>2508766
This book is what happens when a genius writer has nothing at all to write about. He devolves into 'look ma, no hands!' style writing and is all flash and no bang. The boredom drips off the pages, his, not yours, to mingle with the boredom, yours not his, and settle in your lap to mingle about your phallus and get caught up in the rings of your pubic hair, assuming you read in the correct attire, which is nothing, and also assuming that your pubic hair is in the correct state, au naturale.

It is DFW at his considerable most vapid, and one wonders what would Nabokov have written if he was so very terminally sucked into his own ennui and yet couldn't escape his need to write.

>> No.2508798

>>2508783
>>2508766
that book is hilarious though

and why do people always compare dfw to nabokov, i've never understood that

>> No.2508800

>>2508798
Probably because DFW wrote like he thought he had Nabokov's talent. (He didn't.)

>> No.2508813

>>2508800
>(He didn't.)
well that's the final authoritative word on that huh

>> No.2508819

>>2508798
>that book is hilarious though

XDD I AGREE THAT BOOK IS SO RANDOM & IRONIC ;)

>> No.2508828

>>2508819
this is an unusual post for you (dumb typical sarcastic 4chan post)
you're breaking the persona you've built

>> No.2508834

>>2508828

You seem upset.

>> No.2508848

>>2508834
not upset at all, just disappointed in "REI", thought he was a genuine eccentric

>> No.2508850

>>2508848
??? REI was always really obviously a persona

a funny / entertaining one but still

>> No.2508854

>>2508848

>Implying that you are not pretending to not get the sarcasm in his post.

Just admit that he made you upset.

>> No.2508862

lol....this guy....

ahhahahahaha I don't even know where to begin.

The funniest thing is that he seems serious.

>> No.2508882

I can't even believe that someone who writes like DFW did is saying the shit in OP's link.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

>> No.2508888

>>2508882
Ted Williams was a shitty hitting instructor.

>> No.2508896

>>2508854
you confuse me, meat.

>> No.2508901
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2508901

"GENTILISM": ONE WORD. NINE LETTERS.

"PUFF WORD": TWO WORDS. EIGHT LETTERS. NINE CHARACTERS.

"DAVID FOSTER WALLACE"?

MORE LIKE "DERP FOSTER WALLACE".