/lit/ - Literature

Good for you.

b5

(i.e., incomplete b8 and similar in appearance to bs)

>>4243967
I can't take a sweaty fat guy who wears bedclothes seriously.

>judging people for their physical appearance or how they dress

Having said that, DFW was a horrible author and person.

>>4244002
Why was he a horrible person? You obviously didn't actually know him so that's a huge assumption to make

>>4244018
He fucked teenage girls and hit women.

>>4243967
he predicted people like you. you are the problem.

>>4244021

>He fucked teenage girls
>Thinks this makes someone a horrible person

>>4244021
sounds like a pretty awesome person

>>4244021
Source?

>>4244026
>>4244025
>>>/b/

>>4244028
Just read his biography, it's all there.

>>4244029
Link?

Summary?

>>4244036
http://thoughtcatalog.com/kristen-roupenian/2012/09/this-should-not-be-a-love-story-reading-dt-maxs-biography-of-david-foster-wallace/

>>4244002
>implying a persons physical (kek, as if any other existing) appearance doesn't tell you something about the person

>>4243967

I can't take an ad hominem seriously.

>>4244021
>He fucked teenage girls
good for him. really though, who hasn't fucked a teenage girl?

>>4244041
>Eager to fill the gaps in our understanding, over the course of that semester Karina and I began talking about taking a road trip out to Illinois, where David Foster Wallace taught. In imagining this trip, I constructed a picture of the three of us sitting outside on a lawn, rows of green corn behind us, as The Bandana Man himself explained his book to us. Despite the outright scariness of the “Interviews” and the impenetrability of Infinite Jest, I envisioned him as a soft-spoken, sympathetic teacher, honored by our interest and eager to communicate. I can’t speak for Karina, but I must admit that, for me, part of the appeal of such a trip was the possibility that at the end of our impromptu book club meeting, the author might be willing to make out.
>Karina and I never made that pilgrimage, but if we had, David Foster Wallace would have had a term for us at the ready: “audience pussy.” That’s the brutal phrase that surfaces in DT Max’s recent biography of Wallace, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, along with a series of similar anecdotes that suggest that if we’d actually found Wallace on the Illinois campus, he might not have explained Infinite Jest to us, but he may well have fucked us, in more ways than one.

>americans treat teens like children and are astonished that they can't behave decently when they're abruptly thrown into adulthood

He looks like Mac

>>4244041
>He takes full advantage of the “audience pussy” that becomes available to him after the publication of Infinite Jest; telling Jonathan Franzen he wonders whether his only purpose is “to put [his] penis in as many vaginas as possible.” He dismisses one woman he’s slept with by telling her, “I told you not to come here,” as she approaches him after a reading, and refers to another one (“unchivalrously,” Max notes) as “A three-day weekend I’m still paying the credit card bill on.” In New Orleans, he sleeps with a fan who is “underage,” though whether this means someone who is under 21, or under 18, or under 17 (the age of consent in Louisiana) is unclear. He tells one single mother he’s dating that he is jealous “her breasts [are] ‘no longer public property.’” He sleeps with his graduate students. He sleeps with his undergrads. He cruises recovery meetings for hookups, preying on the newly sober

>>4244048
It tells you something about how the person looks and dresses, that's it.

>>4244060
>implying I'm american
>implying I treat teens like children

>>4244041
>being this mad

>>4244063
>implying I'm american
>implying I treat teens like children
Then why are you replying?

>>4244070
Because I know you are referring to me.

>>4243967
>I can't take the content of the book seriously because of the cover

>>4244041
Jesus Christ. What a loser.

>>4244078
Who? DFW or the author of the blog?

>>4244083
Wally.

>>4244021

>waaaa he's dead i wish i could meet him when i had the chance so he could fall in love with me <333
>oh so i didn't have a chance with him after all because he was a fuck-machine, welp am sad that he's a jerk but so relieved now that i don't have to feel regret for not meeting him
>you know what, i'll just write it down and externalize my feelings because am a female and that's what we do

>>4244158
well played

I was actually plen enough to think DFW was a good and sincere writer until I found out what a horrible person he was

>>4244175
He is not horrible; in fact, he is very handsome.

So is this now a new thing? To hate DFW for what you think is horrible and then conclude that you should dislike how he writes since he is bad person?

Infinite Jest is the worst book I've ever read the first 80 pages of and then threw away.

>>4244207
>this is people who dislike DFW

>>4244041
lol how can you been so naive? I´m sure the real dfw was a way better and more interesting person than the idealized writer she was thinking about

>>4244175
all i know is that he boned a ton of women apparently

>>4244223

i don't see your point. why would i have continued to read a work i thought was garbage?

>>4243967
>fat guy
>"What? He wasn't fat... was he?"
>Suddenly occurs to me I've never seen a photo revealing anything below his neckline
>Google images
>Jesus fucking Christ

B-but he has the head of a skinny vegan hipster faggot...

>>4244002
>>4244021

Don't know about the fucking teenage girls (Jesus, what a crime) and woman beating, but I think it's worth noting that he waited on line at FedEx a week before Christmas to mail an autographed book to a fan. All of his students remember him as an engaged teacher, he gave copious feedback on assignments in great detail to help as much as he could. These things are confirmed. Doesn't seem like a bad sort of guy.

>>4244226
She was very young.

>>4244226
It's weird how she assumed someone who had attempted suicide multiple times throughout his life was bound to be a stable, lovely and gentle man

Sounds like an interesting dude. Flawed as fuck but aren't we all?

>>4244254
>Flawed as fuck but aren't we all?
Most people are just cunts. You are probably a cunt. If you can't write a successful autobiography then you are just a generic cunt.

>>4244195
>new
First day on earth or what?

>>4243967
>Fat

He was permabulking you retard. He lifted like a mad fucker. Protein shakes all day erryday.

>>4244175
>liking dfw has become a thoughtcrime

>>4244207
>Reads 0.035% of a book
>Dismisses it

plen

>>4244235
Holy shit look at all the fat, it's like the lipids are coming out of the screen.

>>4244378
Huh. Must've been the bulky clothes.

>>4244378
rachel Ray

he has horrible style.

>http://flavorwire.com/40193/
You are now aware that Jim is a Wallie.

>>4244423
Old news faggot. Drop the trip.

>>4244423
Doesn't she play Esther Randolf in Boardwalk Empire?

>>4244427
New news for me straightgot.
Also he's 2qt5jew

>>4244378
His sucking it in. HARD.

>>4244438
>straightgot.

Which ones are the interesting DFW essays again?

David Fatser Wallace

>>4244529

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=0

>>4244244
The blog post is naive, her teen fantasy is totally understandable. I just find annoying all these people that find out their favourite artist is not like they were expecting, and they can´t accept this and start shitting on him only cause he can´t fit in their simplistic idea of the world, instead of using him to actually expand this idea

>>4244544
If you combine that pic and his biography the only sensible result is Devil Fattest Waldo.
amirote ;^^^)

>>4244563
Typical disillusioned groupie.

>having idols
Pig disgusting

>>4244195
>>4244195
>So is this now a new thing? To hate DFW for what you think is horrible and then conclude that you should dislike how he writes since he is bad person?

>not realizing these are false flag posts

Fuck you /lit/, I hated DFW before I knew it was cool (on the interwebs, in rl it's still cool to think DFW is cool, apparently).

>>4244627
>apparently

What's it like transcending above societal norms, Mr. McEdgy?

>>4244378

>>4244378
Anon confirmed for obesity

>>4244651
oh man
look at all those 5 extra pounds