/lit/ - Literature

fuck off

>>7298913
>The answer for myself is "I don't know".

Does your dad have a shotgun in the house? Step seven isn't included at the link but if you look at yourself long enough in the mirror it will come to you.

http://www.wikihow.com/Load-a-Shotgun

>>7298970

these make incredible reaction images

>>7299003
DFW meme when? These could supplant frogposting.
>>7298976
>filename

>>7299003
Yeah

>>7298913
Unconvinced
>>7298926
wtf are you doing.jpeg
>>7298945
Smug dismissal
>>7298947
doubt
>>7298963
Thomas Pynchon
>>7298968
disgust
>>7298976
Orgasm
>>7298991
ridicule

In a perfect world we would keep this thread going and get everyone folders of david faces to help optimize /lit/ communication.

I think this thread sums up /lit/ pretty well.

>>7298978
Would you post your Twiggy folder if I asked nicely?

>>7299014
This is an old /lit/ meme kid. Nice to see the younguns respecting /lit/ tradition.

>>7298913
This is the most depressing video
Fuck that cameraman

>>7299014
>tfw we transcend the post-structuralists and phenomenologists' quibbles and create a NEW language, of pure sincerity, composed entirely of DFW facial states

>>7299012
The last one should replace Costanza.jpg

>>7299032

>>7299038

>tfw I want to demap myself

This is such a good interview.

We had a thread like this a while ago. Lasted a whole week and I got banned because of it.

I hope this one lasts a good while.

wtf is going on in this interview
he reminds me of that kind of professor who spends an hour trying to answer one idiots dumb question and forgetting that there are 200 other people in the room

i love this thread so much already

>>7299419

I don't like the number of people who aren't already aware of this as a thing

>>7299425
>I'm an old fag xD
>I study maymays for a living :D

>>7298913
Is there some program that makes png/jpg files of all the frames in a YT video?

>>7299414
enjoying oneself

Completely unrelated, but here's another long interview I really like:

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

He literally killed himself on purpose so he would look deep.

>>7299387
>tfw the glory that was the >he doesnt read footnotes thread will never be reached again

>>7299449

post the video of the guy riding in a car at night screaming "DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAACE" at passerbys

>>7299467
>there are people on this board that have this video not bookmarked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

This thread is patrician.

>>7299459

Best.

>>7299432

>being aware of the most prominent meme on /lit/ is claiming to be an oldfag

And everyone wonders why Pynchon doesn't want to be caught on camera.

>>7299497
This, it's not even an old vs new thing, I'm genuinely surprised there are people who don't know about DFW posting. Maybe this thread is just reaching new levels of meta irony

And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>7299437
>png/jpg files of all the frames in a YT video
this

We'll have so many pics of DFW

>>7299515
EVERY
FUCKING
TIME
I can't help but burst out laughing
And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>7299538
>>7299515

>Can't you see your ironic dispositions are killing you and distracting you from what really matters? Damn kids!

>>7299542

I'm reading his essay "Shipping Out" for one of my classes and it makes me so sad. He was perfect. Why did he leave us?

>>7299582
His brain was fucked up by a combination of severe chronic depression and anti depressants

WHY DOES HE WEAR THE BANDANA

>>7299601
>Because most of the problems in my life have to do with confusing what I should wear and what I could wear.

>>7299601
because he viewed himself as mentally ill, so he had to bandage his head

>>7299592

I don't think the anti-depressants made him any worse really.

>>7299647
topkek

>>7299582
If you haven't read Franzens article in the new yorker around 2011, he seems to have a good grasp on it. Seems to have known him as well as anyone

>>7299700
Thank you, I'll read it.

>>7299734
kek

>>7299601
>ban*ana

>>7299683
No, but he used them for a significant portion of his life and then went on and off them later on. Some say going off and on like that is not good for your brain chemistry and can make depression even worse

>>7299782
Can confirm

>>7299782
Ya, he was on Nardil for something like twenty years. He hanged himself a year or so after he stopped taking medication.

>>7299782
I think taking anti-depressants can definitely fuck up your brain in a permanent way. I took a high dose of an SSRI for a few years and it basically made me lose interest in everything and made be basically incapable of truly enjoying things. After I stopped taking them it didn't make me suicidal but I still can't enjoy things the same way I could before I took them.

>>7299808

The brain is remarkably plastic. Permanence is very, very rare when it comes to the brain. Don't lose hope.

I just watched finished watching that interview about a week ago. I was watching it in 30 minutes chunks to give it time to sink in. I thought it was really great. I love the part where he talked about "how to rebel" against all of the cultural things he talked about.
So Far I've read Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing, working my way through Girl with Curious Hair now.

>>7299913

nice blog post

>>7299923
Thanks. I've also saved every image in this thread.

>>7299943
Thanks

>>7298913
>tfw I still haven't read any of his work. Suggestions for first book of his to read?

>>7300036
Broom of the System is a good place to start.

>>7300036
start with his essay on roger federer tbh

>>7300036
Wherever dude. I read The Pale King first. Just bought it on a whim, had never heard of DFW at the time.

>>7300036
Infinite Meme

>>7300036
Non-fiction first imo. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, pick whichever topics sound interesting to you and read those essays, then read the rest of the book if you like 'em. Then Infinite Jest.

>>7300061
seconded. his finest work

2chan

>>7300082
damn dude holy shit

>>7300656
What? I'm not at uni and don't tend to research books the way /lit/ seems to think is necessary. I was curious about the whole "Unfinished" thing, so I grabbed it when I saw it. Loved it and DFW ever since.

>>7299734
>NO DISCERNIBLE TALENT

>>7299032
zizek

>>7300128
I don't understand.

>>7299734
hahahaha he's doin the bloom

somebody put them side by side

>>7301054

>>7299766
kek

DFW WEAPONS GRADE MEME THREAD

Could someone please add more jokes to this image? I feel like there's oh so much more to be said.

>>7301107
I have several of these scattered in a folder. I'm sure a more fastidious anon will have them on hand.
>oh god they'll call them footnotes

>>7301107
I've got this

>>7301159
The ones with suicide jokes are distasteful tbqh fam smdh

>>7301166
>et tu, Orin
just noticed that

idk why dfw is holding ulysses in his hand when he didnt really like it that much

if you're curious about what he said, nothing much, he just said he got through it but "it didnt make my heart beat fast."

>>7301107
>tfwdfw

this is way funnier than it should be

what should ulysses be replaced w/? idk, an early delillo book (americana, end zone, great jones street), or the names, which was the first delillo he read.

the recognitions would actually be better
even gravity's rainbow (though he wouldve hated that-- maybe that's a reason to use it)

>>7299833

>i know nothing of the past 5 decades of psychology findings

>>7301182
I think franzen would be best, pls do it over the most recent in the thread

what do you guys think of DFW?

in 5 words or less

>>7302130
something banal and sad.

>>7299453
Holy, I already forgot about it.

>>7300128
kek

>>7302130
Perhaps I'm not explaining it well.