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wait
people don't read footnotes?

>>5854040
DFW didn't kill himself because he was depressed, he didn't want to deal with plebs who didn't read footnotes

>>5854028
Holy shit DFW looks so disgusted with the world

this is now a dee eff doubleyew maymay thred

DAVID

FOSTER

WALLACE

YEA DAVID FOSTER WALLAAACE

Hello, /lit/

I need a book to read. Any suggestions?

I'm a huge David Foster Wallace, Endless Joke is my favorite book ever.

>>5854212
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

DAVID

FOSTER

WALLACE

dude that guy's chick was hot

>>5854238
>>5854242
lol thanks guys. I'm going to bed now


DAVID

FOSTER

WALLLAAAAACE

> Endnotes, not footnotes
> About three per page
> Almost all of them are useless to me, just stating slight differences in versions of the text
> Still read them all in case one might be important

the things in ij aren't even footnotes
the things in tpk are

Duct your wrists kid

>>5856578
read that whole paragraph with "decadent"

It was a fix I tell you.
>>5856586

>>5856578
Wow, he killed himself 2 days before Lehman's bankruptcy and the collapse of the DJIA.

CONSIDER

LOBSTER

MOLLLLOUSKK

>>5856578

>He reads eastern books.

DFW is literally making an XD face in that pic. Moe DFW

bumping with d-phew

>>5856622

>>5856622
>>5856644
this is doubles

>>5856644
>6644

so why the duct tape?

>>5856613
>wife's name is redacted
>clarification that redacted individual was his wife is not

>>5856681
Yeah that seems odd to me.
Fuck hanging yourself though. Seems so unnecessarily grim. Such a ritual way to go. I'd rather throw myself off a building or just blow my head off. Hanging yourself, with your wrists taped up too, I don't know, just seems off to me.

>>5856701

Yeah, handful of sleeping pills and a glass of water will do it for me

the duct tape was so he can't panic and pull up on the noose when his body tries to preserve itself. As I often say, a lot of you seem to be wasting your time with this whole "reading" thing as you're entirely daft.

goat infinite jest passages? i'm a big fan of the hal lying on the floor of the tp viewing room bits.

>>5856825
I don't think you got it, mr. smart.
You can't hang yourself with your wrists ducttaped together, he had just wrists taped like bracelets on each hand.

>>5856884
>Set up noose
>Enter noose
>Sloppily tape hands
>Kick the bucket

Where should one start with DFW?

>>5856919
>implying

>>5856928
Start? He ended himself, why should you bother starting?

>>5856968

>>5856701
It was probably because he wanted to make sure he actually went through with it. I read somewhere that he knew someone who had a failed suicide attempt and he remarked that he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to go through with it at the last minute.
After all the memes, DFW still is really sad

>>5856638
>mfw I stop going on /lit/ and remember that Infinite Jest is more than a meme and is a great book

>>5856928
just read infinite jest, it's not hard and everybody who calls it a complicated tome or whatever is someone who thinks books are judged by how long they are

My friend tried to get me to read one of his books once, I think it was Consider the Lobster?

I barely made it in and had to stop. Those fucking footnotes, man.

"Hey, let me tell you about my dinner last night!"
>...ok
"Well, so first my mom and I drove to the store, and we needed change for the parking fee. I found a dime in my pocket, and - well first, let me say something about dimes."
>...what?
"Dimes were originally so small because they contained mostly silver, and - actually, that reminds me about something regarding silver."
>JUST TELL ME WHAT WAS SO INTERESTING ABOUT YOUR DINNER, FUCK

It was very annoying trying to maintain interest in the primary thread. Are all his books like that? Based on what I read here, I imagine so.

>>5857182
>After all the memes, DFW still is really sad
Absolutely, and I've even been spamming the "DAVID FOSTER WALLACE" thing lately a lot. Depression is a terrible thing.

I have my own mental struggles, but I can't imagine being that hopeless and having the resolve to do such a thing. Sad and scary in a way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmIAbHXr0Y

>>5857442
Holy shit

>>5857442
I know those clips are completely out of context, but you can still tell how much pressure he was putting on himself for just that interview. From what I know about DFW, it seems like he set unreasonable standards for himself for any and every aspect of his life. Does anyone know if that's accurate?

DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAACE

FOUR TWENTY DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAACE

Dude, that guy's chick was hot.

>>5857198
>mfw some people actually think infinite jest is a great book outside of 4chan

INFINITE MEME

by David Foster Meme

YEAR OF MEME

I am seated in a meme, surrounded by memes and memes. My meme is consciously congruent to the meme of my hard meme. This is a cold meme in University Meme, meme-memed, Meme-hung, double-memed against the November meme, insulated from Administrative memes by the reception meme outside, at which Uncle Meme, Mr. deMeme and I were lately received.
I am in here.
Three memes have resolved into place above summer-weight memes and half-Memes across a polished pine conference meme shiny with the spidered meme of an Arizona meme. These are three Memes — of Memes, Academic Memes, Athletic Memes. I do not know which meme belongs to whom.
I believe I appear neutral, maybe even pleasant, though I've been coached to err on the meme of neutrality and not attempt what would feel to me like a pleasant meme or meme.
I have committed to crossing my memes I hope carefully, meme on meme, memes together in the meme of my memes. My memes are mated into a mirrored meme of what manifests, to me, as the letter M. The interview meme's other memes include: the Meme's Meme of Meme, its varsity meme meme, and Meme prorector Mr. A. deMeme. M.M. is beside me; the others sit, stand and stand, respectively, at the meme of my meme. The meme meme jingles meme-meme. There is meme vaguely digestive about the meme's meme. The high-traction meme of my complimentary Nike meme runs parallel to the wobbling meme of my meme's half-meme, here in his capacity as Meme, sitting in the meme to what I hope is my immediate meme, also facing Memes.
The Meme at left, a lean yellowish meme whose fixed meme nevertheless has the impermanent meme of meme stamped into uncooperative meme, is a personality-meme I've come lately to appreciate, the meme who delays meme of any meme from me by relating my meme of the meme for me, to me. Passed a meme of computer-memes by the shaggy meme of a Meme at center, he is speaking more or less to these memes, smiling down.
'You are Harold Memecandenza, eighteen, meme of secondary-meme meme approximately one meme from now, attending the Enfield Tennis Meme, Enfield, Massachusetts, a boarding meme, where you reside.' His reading memes are rectangular, meme-shaped, the memes at top and bottom. 'You are, according to Coach Meme and 30a regionally, nationally, and continentally ranked junior tennis player, a potential O.N.A.N.C.A.A. athlete of substantial promise, recruited by Coach Meme via meme with Dr. Meme here commencing .. . Meme of this meme.' The top meme is removed and brought around neatly to the meme of the meme, at memes. 'You have been in meme at the Enfield Tennis Meme since age seven.’
I am debating whether to risk scratching the right meme of my meme, where there is a meme.

This meme just got danker.

>>5854217

patrish music taste

>>5857668

nice memes

>>5857668

>>meme-memed

You got me there already

coming thru with the fresh oc meme drop

>>5857617
Its in Oprahs Book Clubs top 50 list of greatest books of the last 50 years. Hell, it was on display at the last book store I was at.

>>5857668
>deMeme

>>5857988
8/10

>>5857988
well, it's a start
change some of the jokes around, some are kind of weak

also make him less aggressive

>>5857988
The footnotes need footnotes

>>5857988
>Nothing about persperating or the room being too noisy

>>5857988
add something about being cut or edited

someone will make a better version than mine, i'm sure.. need that guy who did the 'how does it feel' paragraphs

>>5858109
Don't forget, fucking about with the font size and colour (nearly transparent tiny text up to bold black text to represent different thought processes) is pivotal. Release your inner Modernist

>>5857988
New superior version coming through. Feel free to better it

>>5858155
>>5858109
>ulysses
>embarrassing.avi
sub in lost in the funhouse

>>5858155
>>5858136
Shoulda done that but whatever im passin the torch

>>5858155
>>5858196
>they're actually getting worse

>>5858155
>did that guy shout my name

>>5858196
>>5858155

yeah these are terrible
keep the original guy's version just swap out a few small ones

I would but I don't have photoshop or anything on this computer

GOOD GOOD AMERICAN WRITAAAAH
YEEEAAAH YEEEAH YEEEAH
INFINITE JEST

>>5858196
This one is good, let me help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blnnQMEAfo8

Hey kid, tell me your top ten avant-garde writers, and but so before I demap you!

>>5857458
I'm pretty sure he was on something, iirc he says something like "I was nearly lucid right there" at some point, too.

>>5858285
Why do so many people squat when they pose? Seriously.

>>5858304
He looks like an alternative caveman

>>5858306
In a good way

>>5858272
So are you trying to do like, a thing now, being less funny than each preceding iteration?

>>5858196
>>5858272

Also, that Vineland joke is not only unfunny but completely fucking inane. DFW was by all accounts a Pynchon fan, the claims of his not having read Pynchon come from his not having read The Crying of Lot 49 at the time of Broom of The System's release, (a point raised after one critic compared the two calling Broom more or less a ripoff) and would have no reason to be angry about finding Vineland on somebody's shelf, odds being that he owned Vineland himself and, not being a pretentious-materialist on 4chan who gets their opinions on literature from recommendation flowcharts(?) probably enjoyed the book. "But even critics hated Vineland!" It's post-modernism, there will always be critics who hate it, critics hated Against The Day. "But they loved Gravity's Rainbow!" In retrospect, not to mention it was because of this retrospective masterpiece status that Vineland was so initially bashed, because it stood in the shadow of the now mammoth Gravity's Rainbow, a book Pynchon would never and will never be able to top, if not literarily, but culturally and iconically.

And but so remove your fucking 'joke'.

>>5857442
>does this make sense
I think this explains the length of his texts

>>5858319
It's like you think people on /lit/ have actually read DFW, I just do the and but so thing every now and then. For real though I'm getting my mum to get me Infinite Jest for christmas.

>>5858304
>not squatting
>being such a weak-leg that you don't roman char everywhere
>putting your ass on filthy concrete
>not taking the master Slav pose

Fucking disgusting American

I bet you can't squat because the diabetes makes your legs too fat huh

>>5858319
Hey buddy, DFW is on record as saying Vineland sounds like it was written by someone who watched television and smoked pot for 20 years. Regardless of how he felt about Gravity's Rainbow and Pynchon in general, he didn't like Vineland. It's just a dumb little reference and if you can't appreciate every nuance of /lit/'s seminal meme author then you should get off your meme high horse and go be undank somewhere else.

Friendly reminder that he was a hideous person, and he knew it. He betrayed the ones that loved him with his suicide.

http://youtu.be/6ga3oT_AZe0

>>5858350
Ah, shit.

I guess I'm still the only one who likes Vineland.

>>5857182
IIRC the fear wasn't that he wouldn't be able to go through with it, per se, but that he would fuck it up.

The person he knew tried to kill himself by inhaling car fumes or something like that but just ended putting himself into a coma for a little while and giving himself serious brain damage -- Wallace wrote to a friend something to the effect of "I just know that if there's one person who'll fuck up their suicide attempt it'll be me."

A really sad idea lightly clothed in self-depreciating humor -- per usual.

>>5858354
It's nice seeing him having fun. As someone above said, even after all the memes the whole situation is very sad.

>>5858354
He's starting to remind me of Mac from Always Sunny for some reason. His body language is weirdly similar.

>>5854028
"No more memes
Only dreams "
DFW, September 12, 2008
;_;

>>5858386
this made me sad

You guys remember "The Devil is a Busy Man"? From BIWHM. I think the ending line of that snippet (and the whole narrative of the snippet itself) describes his biggest fear:

"Thus, I showed an unconscious and, seemingly, natural, automatic ability to both deceive myself and other people, which, on the "motivational level," not only completely emptied the generous thing I tried to do of any true value, and caused me to fail, again, in my attempts to sincerely be what someone would classify as truly a "nice" or "good" person, but, despairingly,

> cast me in a light to myself which could only be classified as "dark," "evil," or "beyond hope of ever sincerely becoming good."

"

>>5854028
>dfw The Pale King is his best work

Move over boys a real comedy is coming through

>>5858442
fuck off this meme isn't dank

>>5858442
I like the multiple personality disorder displayed through the varying colors of text. Very accurate.

Ugh, for all the memes and jokes I've made at DFW's expense, he really did seem like a good person who couldn't get over whatever mental demons he placed upon himself. It seems like every video of his interactions with people and his attempts to explain ideas and concepts aren't so much autistic as desperate - desperate in the way that a guy who's incredibly thirsty and dry-throated attempts to ask for water. Regardless of the quality of his ideas and theories on life or modern culture, it all seemed to be coming from this same source, a well of sincerity and self-hatred that he could only tap in an indirect way lest he revealed too much of himself. Certainly not the kind of guy that could stand being directly exposed for all the world to see, yet ended up revealing so much by how he tried to conduct himself and be as perfect as possible.

>>5858442
saved

best so far

>>5858460
>his attempts to explain ideas and concepts aren't so much autistic as desperate - desperate in the way that a guy who's incredibly thirsty and dry-throated attempts to ask for water.
Now that is mediocre prose.

>>5858474
Well, I'm no DFW.

>>5858460
i used to be more sympathetic to him and his idiosyncrasies and super duper sincerity when i was younger, but at a certain point it's time to get over/outside yourself a little and learn how to relate to people. all of his tics just seem like attention-seeking to me.

>>5858483
Are you saying he was just another angsty emo kid?

>>5858521
no. he was clearly troubled enough to kill himself (because he knew he hadn't any talent), but he seems to have retained a juvenile sense of himself, seemed to cling to a narcissistic idea of himself, that people really really cared what he had to say, that they cared how he presented himself, that what he said was "lucid" etc.

he goes over all the permutations of this in his fiction with his depressed and anxious characters, but at some point it's time to just cut the gordian knot of neuroticism and give it a rest with giving a shit about what other people think about you if there aren't real concrete consequences to their ideas of you

anyway, i didn't know the guy so this is mostly just gossipy shitposting, but that's my two cents

>>5858543
I wouldn't go so far as to say he had no talent - I greatly enjoy a lot of his work, though it's rarely because it screams 'incredible talent'. It seems like he knew what would make for interesting topics to write about, but he wasn't asking the right questions or wasn't approaching it from the right angle. He threw half-assed ideas together that started from some legitimately good source of inspiration and then tried connecting dots that weren't necessarily there. Sometimes he made valid connections, but they feel more accidental than anything. In any case, I think his anxiety over his image and whatnot might have stemmed from his upbringing but was only aggravated by mental illness. He couldn't just break out of that mindset because depressive episodes kept coming back and medication was only a temporary relief. I've never experienced depression myself, at least not on any scale of someone who could be pushed to suicide from its severity, so I try not to cast any judgements on someone who isn't acting in an entirely logical state-of-mind like DFW.

>>5858559
>I wouldn't go so far as to say he had no talent
i was just referring to that stupid meme

>>5858442

IT'S LIKE WE ARE BROOMING AWAY THE SYSTEM

>>5858354

>dfw you will never watch sporting events with le sincere bandana man

>>5854028
But it's undeniable that footnotes completely fuck-up narrative flow.

Read Nabokov's great introduction to his translation of A Hero of Our Times.

You should only read footnotes if you're going to read the novel twice, the first time ignoring them entirely and the second go-through picking them apart.

Footnotes suck ass.

What the hell does "and but so" even mean?

>>5858649
I don't know, but I tried to start a sentence in Spanish with "Y pero entonces" but I was scolded by my editor.

>>5858640
>But it's undeniable that footnotes completely fuck-up narrative flow.

That's the point.

>>5858674
Try "y aunque así que" or "más y por tanto".

>>5858640
Nabokov basically wrote a novel made up of footnotes though.

>>5858689
Now I get it.

http://youtu.be/8X_Ot0k4XJc

>>5858689
The point of writing a shitty novel, you mean?

Some people like shitty novels and some don't; it's absurd and pointless to ague about tastes.

>>5854049
he's just sperging out at himself

>>5856681
to make sure you can't bitch out in the last moment panic

>>5858640

It's assholes like you that are responsible for the death of John Shade.

>>5858723
Because I like Nabokov and paid him a compliment, I'm responsible for the death of one of characters?

It's assholes like you with the reading comprehension of a dyslexic Chinese exchange student who cause so much confusion on this board.

I read footnotes by the author but fuck reading footnotes by some random cunt who edited the specific edition i am reading

>>5855641
I'm reading Don Quixote and every fucking footnote is
>the main protagonist of the book of chivalry (book name) published in _____

Its so fucking annoying some times it takes up half a page and I still read them all in case they might be important

DAVID

FOSTER

WALLACE

>>5854028
I love DFW but still shit post about him

>>5854028
Can we agree that, after all the memes, DFW is still /lit/'s favorite author over all?
He's talked about more than anybody else here and Infinite Jest got the most votes for best novel on here.

>>5854028
>dfw he will never finish the pale king

>>5859860
It would have been better than infinite jest

>>5855641
> Annotated Ulysses
> Average of six footnotes a page
> 80% of them detail the songs, streets and real life people appearing in the novel
> Kills the pacing totally
> Still can't skip because autism

DAVID

FOSTER

WALLACE

>>5856578
How much must a person want out, to duct tape both his wrists.

I hope to see this thread still up when I wake up tomorrow

>>5854028
> he doesnt read the prologue

>>5862562
DFW was very depressed

>>5862693
okay

>>5856578
Why did he wrap duct tape around each of his wrists? Like as a bracelet?

>>5858543

i agree

>>5858543

but he at least implied he got over what other people thought of him, if only for a time (see his essay 'The Nature of the Fun'

>>5863887
Thanks

>>5858543
fuck off, you are a borderline retard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blnnQMEAfo8

FOUR TWENTY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

>not finding on which page each chapter ends, then reading every endnote for that chapter, read the chapter, then reading all the endnotes for the next chapter and so on so as not to disrupt the flow of the novel
Fucking retards

>>5858543
This is actually true. The fact that he wasn't praised the world over for the shit he wrote really crushed him and he couldn't deal. He was basically forced to come to the conclusion that he was a mediocre talent dressing himself up like something grand (which is precisely what he was).

>>5856613
>twelve electro shock treatments
wow, that guy really was desperate.

This is why I like to read endnote/footnote heavy novels on my computer, in Calibre specifically. If I can find a decent copy (for free, obviously) then the endnotes will be hyperlinked.

Click to see note, click back button to return. Doesn't hurt the flow as much as having to flip through an actual book all the time, or wait for your slow ass ereader to load up different pages.

Or you could just read them beforehand like the guy a few posts up says.

>>5856613
>12 ECTs
damn dis nigga sad

INFINITE JEST?

dude that guy's chick was hot

>>5859855
infinite jest is my favorite novel
so yeah we can agree on that.

>>5868268
pleb

>>5859855
>after all the memes
>He's talked about more than anybody else here
Yes, but if you subtract the memes and discussion of just how overrated and tryhard he is, you're not left with more than our Pynchon / Joyce / Borges appreciation.

>>5868279
>tryhard
you should really read up on his works a little before spewing buzzwords

You could've used so many words, yet you ended up with 'tryhard'

>>5868279
2010 lit voted Ulysses as the best novel ever made.

>>5858543
but he said u care less about what peopl think of u when u realize how rarely they do

>>5866463
You don't understand IJ.

It's supposed to be like a tennis game.

Back and forth.
Back and forth.
Back and forth.

>>5868732
>I'm going to write a book with 500 pages of footnotes because every other book is too easy to read
That's about as 'tryhard' as it gets.

>>5856613
I find this post creepy and this entire thread full of banal platitudes

>>5869374
DAVID

FOSTER

WALLLLLACE

>>5868273
well considering that pleb is a subjective term and infinite jest is /lit/'s highest ranked novel, maybe you're the pleb ellis

>>5869103
>i'm going to say there's 5 times as many footnotes as there are to make my point since i can't use actual facts becuase my point makes no sense

>>5868279
>trying do to stuff makes you lame
le lazy genius slacker face

>>5857442
so this vid was made by the bitch the guy loves in taipei
i wonder how much this meme couple posted here

>>5869600
However many pages there were, that's what his reasoning was, and that constitutes trying too hard.
Not the 'too.' Trying isn't bad, but after a certain point, it becomes clear that you're compensating for something. His overly loquacious style is also try hard.

I never want this thread to die, guys.

>>5870103
the fact you know this means you've done intensive reading and / or research of tao

420dfw

>>5854028
WALLACE
A
L
L
A
C
E

>dfw you forget to change your bandana

So how great is the Eschaton chapter?

>>5857442
The I'm sorry at 1:47 is heartbreaking, man.

>>5870110
>my original point was that he wrote too many pages, but now the amount of pages does not matter
fuck off

>>5873873
What chapter is it? I'm nearing 300

How did /lit/ react to his death? Did they even talk about him back then?

>>5874711
/lit/ wasn't even around

Don't worry about this old nutter guys, it isn't so bad up here after all. I've even had time to finish the Pale King proper. Cheers lads

>>5874667
Page like 324 to 340. The AA chapter that comes after it is arguably even better. I just hit page 427

>>5874718
when did /lit/ spawn?

>>5875175
C-can I go take a look at it?

>>5876892
2011 I think. Is ED still down?

>>5876948
Nope.

>>5857442
P A R A D O X
A
R
A
D
O
X

>>5858559
have you even wittgensteined

>dfw someone on the internet calls you bandanaman

>dfw David Foster Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YXfGxixeug

>>5858460
should have used an endnote for that digression at desperate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmIAbHXr0Y

>>5856578
>>5856613
You succeed in making me sad again.

>>5874333
My original point was that he wrote too many pages of footnotes. I still think he wrote too many pages of footnotes. I still think his overly loquacious style is tryhard.

>>5878835
how can one human being be so tryhard

>>5879072
Every WASP is like that.

>>5878835
DFW is officially patron saint of all nerds trying desperately to convince people that they geniuses.

>>5878835
What the fuck? Has this been edited to appear like this or is there something really wrong with him? Like severe anxiety or depression or something?

>>5879085
is this a serious question?

>>5856919
or just tape your hands, duck them behind your back, get up on chair, put head through prepared noose and kick the chair out

it's like you guys don't even have exit plans ready

>>5879091
Which part, I know its been edited, but it's not clear how much. Some of the expressions and stuff he's saying go beyond being taken out of conetxt unless there is some ninja editing happening

>>5879097
He was depressed, anxious, and autistic, and every second of the video shows it.

>>5879097
Why don't you watch the full interview
But yes he was an asspie

>>5854028
>>He doesn't read footnotes [1]

[1] presumably

>>5854195
This is still the best post in this thread

>>5878835
muh paradoxes

>dfw dfw

I can not even articulate how much DFW and his works mean to me.

>>5881223
I know that feeling, anon.

>>5881227
being inarticulate? we know

>>5881233
>we
:)

DUDE, EVERYTHING AND MORE

>>5881223
this
DFW did really make great stuff

>>5881223
yeah, he kind of became what ITAOTS is to /mu/ on /lit/.

>>5882481
nah, /mu/ genuinely likes ITAOTS for the most part, whereas I'd say over 50% of DFW posting on /lit/ is negative or bait, but the threads still get big because people have heard of him/aren't as intimidated by him as they are by classical/canon stuff

>>5882495
but infinite jest was voted /lit/'s favorite book

DAVID

FOSTER

WALLACE

Would anyone still read DFW if he had a less literary name? Like Bob Jenkins or something? Or something a little ethnic like Tony Slaptapeni or Rory O'grady? Doubt it. Is DFW a pseudonym? Sounds like some shit a bunch of marketing guys in a publishing companies manhattan office tower dreamed up..."Ok, we need something that sounds...literary?" "How about William Joyce Melville?" "Hmm, not bad but consider Blake Christian Milton, you know, to get the Jesus freaks buying!" "No, you idiots are laying it on too heavy, our focus groups have shown that David Wallace Foster was most likely to induce an impulse buy!" "yeah, but the initials DWF, having the Dubya in the middle makes it sound like an acronym or some shit..." "Ok, noted, how about David Foster Wallace, or DFW for short?" "Great, let's go with it!"

>>5884839
Well, yeah. That's why Ballsface McPleb is pretty much an unknown.

>>5863921
So he couldn't save himself if he changed his mind.

>>5874299
I know I shouldn't but 1:47 makes me lol. Just the way the camera man zooms in on his eyes like that.

Knowingly killing yourself : baller as fuck.

welcome to our absurd reality. youre gonna die anyway, and nothing matters anyway, so why not do it yourself.

>>5856783
took 1500mg of ambien and drank a Bottle of C morgan thursday. I am still around.

I started Broom of the System today. it's good.

>"Telling stories that are not my own is at this point what I do, after all."

kek

>>5856783
Woman tier.

>>5887046
yeah, pills and alcohol are really uneffective

>>5856884
Sure you can, stand on the chair and put the noose around your neck,then duct tape your hands together, then jump off. Easy.

>>5858136
hahaha what the fuck

>>5854028
Why the fuck did I make this thread
I love DFW and all this has started is memes

>>5887307
It's been on the first page for a fucking week

>dfw people yell your name from cars

>>5887307
people start using memes just because he is talked about so much and to keep things funny for the people who actually find it a bit humorous. It just comes with popularity on 4chan

what is your favorite dfw meme?

>>5854028
>he reads footnotes

>>5892203
>he reads

>>5892207
>he

>dfw you're just jestin'

>>5878769
> dfw DFW is your favorite song off of Rory's [1] dfw your bestfriend drowns to death mixtape [2]


[1] Milo is merely a stage name, nom de plume, alter ego for Rory Ferreira that he uses to escape from the constrictions of birth name and all that is associated w/ it
[2] That mixtape being I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here*
*The title itself is both an homage to Rory's† friend Rob who drowned 'buck naked' † in a public swimming pool and the first album from the discography of Del the Funky Homosapien
† http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v022/22.2.ferreira.html

How is this thread still alive?

>>5894024
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
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>>5894024
its about our favorite author

>>5886184
I still don't get it. He puts duct tape on his wrists as bracelets and then cuts his wrists? I'm really curious it's an honest question.

>>5894180
He duct taped his hands together so he couldn't use them. Not individually wrapped, but wrapped together.

>>5894024
becasue the faggot op keeps bumping it

>>5894180
What? No one dies cutting their wrists, he hang himself like a decent person.

>>5894024
it's a paradox

>>5894196
i actually only bumped it once with >>5887307

>>5854028
Is this the longest/ lit/ thread ever?

>>5856783
Pills - unless you know what you're mixing - never work.

>>5894223
You certainly can if you hit an artery

>>5894180
he hung himslef

>>5854028
>dfw this thread will never die

>>5895469
>dfw

>>5854028

how long is this thread going to be live

>>5896354
longer than DFW was

>>5896429
He was nearing 50, I wouldn't really consider that to be a young

>that scene where Hal is clipping his toenails


What were your favorite parts? Lets get this thread back arollin

>>5896685
The AA meeting with the story of the crack addict whore whom gave birth to her stillborn baby in the motel room.

>>5896685
Idk but the Ebonics chapter was legitimately one of the worst things I've ever read in my life.

>this thread is still up

>>5896704
hello, english is not my front language and is this the correct use of "whom" thank you

>>5896719
Yeah it's the correct use but the word whom is a bit antiquated, just using the word "who" would have been fine as well.

>>5896685
My favorites are usually the stuff talking about the AA meetings, specifically the one where the girl talks about how her foster father diddled his paraplegic daughter every night in front of her and afterwards she had to take off the latex Raquel Welch mask he put on the catatonic daughters face while he boned her--the long winded story being the cause of her spiral into prostitution and addiction.
> dfw reading infinite jest makes you write/think sentences that are the grammatical equivalent of turduckens

>>5896719
"no"

>>5896715
it's not going anywhere

>>5896856
this thread will outlive me

is oblivion worth the $$

>>5856578
That's just the kind of Investigator's Narrative he would have loved.

>>5863921
On planet JUIKIJ, duct tape bracelets are known to illuminate SHYFKKJ

>>5857458
That was the problem - The Pale King sucked and he couldn't make it good

>>5896867
>dfw

>>5854028
>Not reading footnotes
ISHYGDDT (I sincerely hope you guys don't do this)

>mfw DFW met Max Hardcore
>mfw no face

>>5898795
>dfw

>she doesn't read YA

>>5898795
Axl Rose?

>>5899892

>>5899897

>>5899901

>>5899904

>>5899912

>>5899917

This thread is going places, good going Anon.

>>5854028

>10 days 19 hours and 6 minutes later... thread's still here boys

>he doesn't play tennis

>>5899925

>>5899980
Get your postmodern shit out of my face heathen

scoring some dubs for >>>/mu/

>>5900000
now go back there

>>5900009
ok

>>5900000
quints.
Nice.

>>5854028
>this thread is infinite

>>5856643
10/10 GOAT

By the way, how the fuck is this thread still up? It's like some endless joke.

>>5900043
>you jestin' me?

dis thread is phatter than Randy's mom! RIP tho

>>5900000
>>5900025
>>5900057

>>5900053
some sort of perennial humor

I can't believe this thread is still alive.

>>5900100
I can't believe DFW isn't still alive

>>5900118
:/

>>5900122

well it was nice, gents

see you jesting around later, dudes!

>>5854028
I won't have access to internet for the next two weeks because of holiday trips
this thread better be up when i get back

>>5900132
just passed the bump limit

RIP

>>5900130
>implying you can leave
>implying the jesting is not sempiternal

RIP just like DFW ;_;

>>5900136
EVERYBODY POST AS MUCH JEST AS POSSIBLE

>dfw I use the word "pontificate"

>>5900149
Do you mean it in a funny way?

>>5900145
if you say so

>>5900136
I will die with this thread

>>5900145
Okay.

>>5900166
non ironic lol, I've never seen that pic before

>>5900166
how did wallace get so many dank memes

>>5900136
lyk dis if u cry evry time

>>5900136
and but so I will demap myself when this thread ends

thanks for all the me(me)mories!

keep posting dank funny walrus! lmao

>dfw too many memes

>>5854028
Fuck i love DFW and wish he was still here
no more memes, only dreams

>>5900188
David Rules Everything Around Me
D R E A M

Dude, that guy's chick was hot

who /dfw/ here

>>5900204
420 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

>>5900208
I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5R8gduPZw4

>dfw watching this thread sink into the depths of the catalogue

>>5900367
:(

Maybe we can just get lit to stop posting

>>5900277
>You will never take DFW's English course
>You will never see the Death Grips perform live
>You will never realize what really interests you until it's over

>>5900540
>You will never be the first person to drive around an urban area yelling "DAVID FOSTER WALLACE" at the confused masses

>>5900540
Fuck

>>5900544
FUCK

I am Water

>>5854028
I feel like DFW's spirit is watching this thread wishing he could hang himself again.

>>5899867
Brett Michaels.

>dfw dies
>franzen gets to live

there is no god

STICKY??

>>5902449
>dfw no