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Anonymous Wed Sep 30 20:41:08 2015 No.7180878 [Reply] [Original]

>DFW had a tattoo with a footnote on it

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:07:48 2015 No.7181314 You read Infinite Jest. Great. So has everyone else. Little bitches clogging up my /lit/ with their garbage threads all the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:10:41 2015 No.7181320 >>7181314 >So has everyone else i haven't. is it worth reading for non-americans? kinda been put off by the memeing tbh

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:14:51 2015 No.7181333

>>7181320
It's a good book. I would recommend it if you can put the time in. I'm not American. It's a shame that 75% of people here are fucking losers and/ or stupid. If that weren't the case maybe DFW would have a better rep here. He's extremely good as far as I'm concerned.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:16:17 2015 No.7181343 >>7181314 i haven't read it. it honestly doesn't seem that good to me. and way too long

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:22:43 2015 No.7181361

>>7181343
I'm going to give you my honest opinion. It is too long. I don't think anyone would debate that.

However, it's a really amazing book, and I loved it. Wallace has some powerful ideas and communicates them wonderfully, and all things considered, its strengths far outshine its weaknesses.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:25:05 2015 No.7181368 >>7180878 That's only like the third or fourth dumbest thing about that tattoo.

Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:32:40 2015 No.7181392

>>7181333
>>7181361
Agreed with both of these. It's worth reading. It would have been improved it it used footnotes instead of endnotes, but whatever.

Honestly, though, while I enjoy his fiction, I think his essays are better. I know they often get shat on for being 'more approachable,' but approachability is not always a bad thing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:35:11 2015 No.7181397 Who is "DFW"?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 30 23:45:57 2015 No.7181431 >>7181397 David Foster Wallace you feg

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:31:32 2015 No.7182567 >>7181397 really?

Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:33:24 2015 No.7182572
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>>7181392
>It would have been improved it it used footnotes instead of endnotes, but whatever.

>He doesn't know why they're endnotes instead of footnotes

You have to flip back and forth because it emulates watching a game of tennis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 10:34:57 2015 No.7182577 >>7181392 >It would have been improved it it used footnotes instead of endnotes

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:36:12 2015 No.7182688 >>7182572 WHY DOES THIS GIVE ME FEELS EVERY TIME I SEE IT

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:42:00 2015 No.7182706 He also had a noose with a neck in it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:45:49 2015 No.7182714 >>7180878 He also had a footnote on his suicide note. A few actually.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:47:03 2015 No.7182718 He planned to kill the husband of a gril whos name he tattooed inside of a heart on his arm then later had it crossed out and inserted his wifes name by footnote, how gauche.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 11:48:06 2015 No.7182721 >>7182714 Is that available to read anywhere?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 12:23:14 2015 No.7182801 >>7182572 What a smug looking punk

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 1 13:03:22 2015 No.7182918 >>7182801 For you

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:54:58 2015 No.7184621 >>7182572 >lives in MA and Tucson >writes a book set in MA and Tucson

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:56:16 2015 No.7184626 Why does he wear the rag

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 00:58:29 2015 No.7184630 NO DISCERNIBLE TALENT

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 02:37:20 2015 No.7184809 >>7182572 Ah, no kidding. Very cute. Wish they were footnotes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 12:05:21 2015 No.7185666 >>7181397 David Fucking Walrus

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 2 13:29:37 2015 No.7185837 >>7184626 If you take it off...

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