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>get high
>think you're an artist

Did DFW write Infinite Jest high?

Does anyone have any experience writing/reading while high?

I don't smoke no mo', but when I did, I tried to write a screenplay.
I kept getting side-tracked and it turned out like shit.
Do professional writers smoke while they write?
Franzen has really bashed weed in The Corrections and Freedom.
or does he just not want others to discover the secret?

>The Man Who Began to Suspect He was Made of Glass

Post your weed experiences.

>> No.3676618

Stop posting.

>> No.3676625
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3676625

Same goes for weed

>> No.3676628

I try not to be alienated from reality while in the process of creating something that could bear my name for posterity.

>> No.3676631

>>3676628
Well, not any more than I already am.

>> No.3676646

>>3676606
>no mo',

Leave.

>> No.3676653

>>3676625
Hmm...
That's actually a really good idea.

>> No.3676663
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pretty apathetic to weed and booze in general, like anyone over 15. it's fun on occasion with friends. i never write on it, but not out of principle. just because it yields boring, sloppy bullshit.

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>>3676646

Yo Dunm, before the sun set
Call connect get all the tech's
I'm vexed, this nigga stall for sex
Lost respect, let's off his neck
My calibre, got me thinkin on a higher algebra
See me I'm just as foul as ya
but you ain't got no style in ya

>> No.3676720

>>3676665

You're so lame.

>> No.3676735

>>3676720
nou

>> No.3676783

>>3676618
seconded

>> No.3676823

>>3676783
you only need to put 'sage' in the e-mail box, bub.

>> No.3676863

I once wrote an observation on my thoughts I had while walking to the restroom after a few hours of feverish painkiller-induced dreams. It involved involuntary memory of summer camp, invoked by the beautifully visible Pleiades. Maybe I can dig it up from my notebooks.

>> No.3676868

DFW had been to rehab and quit using both marijuana and alchohol by the time he finished IJ, but the rough sketches or inklings of the novel were written in the late 80s, when he still used weed frequently.

Source: D.T. Max's DFW biography

p.s. i may be stoned

>> No.3676871

Collect ideas high;
write high;
always edit sober

>> No.3676901

Weed, weed, weed, is that all you dildoes ever think about?

Weed clouds your thinking. If you can't write well sober, you sure as hell won't be able to write well stoned.

>> No.3676906

>>3676625
No.

Hemingway didn't even say this btw.

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Herbert conceived Dune while he was high on THC candy

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>>3676975
I was not aware of that.

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Im so toke
I guess Im gone of that green sticky
just ripped a muthaphukkin hole in my brand new dickies
from walkin to close to the fuckin barb wire
thats when I know I've got 10 dollars on some fire
If you can do this muthaphukka
lets get a twenty
fuck white zig zags
I need some brown stickys

>> No.3677703

Like your high 24/7 for 47 month. meh, me think not.
It looks great when you're high, the day after, utterly crap. Maybe some line is ok.

>> No.3678506

I always write sober then edit high. For some reason I take a different view and can fix my flow, structure etc

>> No.3678518

>>3677691
Its best to go anonymous when you're doing these tryhard "funny" posts.

>> No.3678558

Last time I took psychedelics, I opened a few books to random pages and read a few lines. I'm not even kidding, the pages changed appearance to reflect the tone of the book. Like with On The Road, the paper started to look like it was cheaper/pulpier and the letters got shorter and wider almost like they were bursting with energy. With Virginia Woolf's The Waves, I got the sense that it was printed in a fancy old font on really nice thick paper, like it was some beautiful tome, when actually it was just the Penguin Modern Classics edition (same as On The Road).

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>>3678558
Yea, that happened to me! I was reading atlas shrugged and it smelld like shit!
#synesthesia #psychonautics

>> No.3678576

>>3677703
>It looks great when you're high, the day after, utterly crap
That happens to me whenever I write anything.
>Write something
>"Omg this is great, best thing I ever wrote"
>Wait a bit, read it back
>"how did I write something so shitty..."

that's what editing is for