/lit/ - Literature

>>7306665
Whatta QT

>>7306700

>>7306705
damn that's probably the fattest I've ever seen him

kind of has an Orson Welles thing going on

>>7306698
jason sudekis should've played him

did they have intercourse?

not rare, but doesnt get posted a lot

>>7306755
thought this was photoshopped but now i think it's just the light

lets turn things spooky for hallows eve

>>7306776
>Frontal balding is present
top kek

>>7306943
DROWNING

>>7306943
>audience pussy

>>7306776
>Los angeles

>>7306776
>DFW had ECT done on him

That shit must've sucked.

>>7306750
are they holding hands?

>>7307090

i hear it's a relatively effective treatment

>>7306705
>>7306712
This must be why people sometimes say he was a huge Orson Welles.

>This thread

>>7307124

Except in the cases where it fries your entire memory and personality yet somehow does fuck-all for your depression, sure.

When is the suicide note going to surface??

>>7307539
If ever, not for like forty years.

>>7307539

It's probably not that interesting. Mostly just telling them how to publish what of the Pale King there was.

>>7307552
Well consider he did the deed in his backyard where his wife could find his body, I am sure it will be full of some spiteful shit.. Spiteful shit and memes

>>7306732
confirmed yes

>>7306732
>"it would be ironic to stare at her chest"
>DAMN

>>7306732
3 contemporary legends

>>7307825

Is zadie actually good?

>>7306776
>6'4''

>>7306705
looks like he's about to unsheathe his katana

>>7306732
the look in her eye, you just KNOW they banged
david foster wallace is known to be THE most hung guy in literature, possibly one of the biggest in the world. his cock has been described as "like an evian bottle", with gargantual thickness that would rival shane diesel and shorty mac. im estimating his size to be at least 8.5" bone pressed, with OVER 7" of girth. he would have absolutely destroyed her pussy.
they would have spent hours and hours on foreplay, getting herself wet enough just so she can take it. i can just imagine her begging for it, with david barely able to force it past the knob, and her moaning and squirming, demanding him to force it in deeper. she would have orgasm'd within seconds of taking the entire length, being filled and stretched right up to her cervix.. the orgasm would have been powerful, with her vaginal muscles clamping down on davids throbbing monstrosity, her whole body quivering in euphoria..
i bet she still masturbates to the memory of it

>>7306776
the creepiest part is how similar it sounds to a DFW footnote

>>7307090
apparently it helped him, at least the first time. note how Kate Gompert begs for ECT in Infinite Jest and describes how it temporarily cured her depression.

>>7306776
Can someone shop this and rewrite this to sound a bit more DFW and autistic including the footnotes? Thanks.

>muh celebrity worship

>>7308108
Hanging elongated his neck. He was 6" pre-death.

>>7306750
faggot on the right

this is the patio where he killed himself. that central beam is the one he nailed his belt to before taping his hands behind his back and hanging himself from it.

>>7306776
>unremarkable anus

kek

>>7306776

>>7309971

Lol'd.

>>7309755
i believe i could be very happy for the rest of my life if i owned that house

>>7306705
Oh shit fat mac

>>7309971
Dark but I did laugh, so.

AUDIENCE PUSSY
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>>7306740

>>7309971
Hhahahahahahah

>>7307215

>>7310689
>>7307215
the fetish thread

From what I gather, while DFW was impressed by "well-adjusted" people (solipsism is a given, but one can adjust), he liked to portray situations where a character is completely *cut-out* from the situation he's thrown into (see IJ's incipit)

I mean, the guy wrote about being yourself, and literally had Tourette. >>7310697. Sounds like a mix of Daria and Woody Allen.

Just rambling, but Daria is that type of young fellow who never gets mad, but will tear all your intentions to pieces until you're bored. Wallace precisely described PoMo (Pynchon, early DeLillo...) as the 1st generation of writers who, as they went to grad school, are self-conscious about literature (functions of the text, narrator and narratee* (Barthes), etc)

I mean it's totally coherent with his Tourette (Charlie Rose literally tells him to "just be", while he's the helpless witness of Wallace literally getting caught in a spiral of self-justification, esp. when Rose accuses him of caring too much about his image, which flies Wallace into a cold deconstructive/destruktiv rage about TV)

It all makes sense. This is exactly what I wanted to say. I'm proud of myself. End clap. End credits. Bowie b&w music.

*I translate

>>7309971

kek'd

<< The mind is a good servant, but not a good master. Is it a coincidence that people always shoot themselves in the head? >> DFW

Every time i heard that speech yeah one part of me was like 'damn, so true' but another part of me was always like 'Where you gonna shoot yourself in the ankle?'

>>7310848
He literally mesmerizes the audience.
That bit about attention, where he wakes them by supposing they might be caught in their own inner monologue right at the moment... Comedy gold.

>>7310776
So, is being "authentic" about being a loser?

>>7310848
Achilles, please.

Did wallace study hypnosis or any kind of mind control? Because i feel such a connection to his work sometimes its scary, and im always trying to figure out how he did it. Never felt so much like i knew a writer.

>>7310848
The heart or brain stem would work just as efficiently

>>7310898
>brain stem
you can also "hate your guts"

protip : shooting oneself in the mouth is precisely about aiming at the lizard brain.

>>7310888
Care to introduce me?
Infinite Jest is literally falling from my hands (p. 255)

>>7310938
Start with the essays senpai

>>7310941
okay. It def. seems like one could do without the fake plot, and put on full rambling mode.

>>7308075
this post

If David Foster Wallace, then what fosters David?

>>7310938
It gets better, desu (despite evidence suggesting unpalatability)

>>7310968
I want to get to the bit about the insane asylum.

>>7310981
there is no part about an insane asylum

David means Beloved
Foster means Keeper of the Forest
Wallace means Welshman/Foreigner

His name is Beloved Foreigner, Keeper of the Forest.

>>7311007
"rehab", then

>>7311022
oh, yeah, tons of halfway house/aa meetings stuff

>>7311013
poetic/10

>>7311028
I'm reading it in English, but Infinite Jest has just been published in France for the 1st time*. (I heard about it after starting the book, then I listened to excerpts they read on YT to sell the book)

*weird, I know

>>7311054
>l'infinie comedie

i m in tears omg

>>7311057
I know
plebs gonna pleb.

>>7311057

To be fair, the translator is aware that he's messing up the Hamlet reference. He's just replacing it by a reference to Dante and Balzac (Divine Comedy and Human Comedy respectively) while approximating the literal meaning.

The Joke That Never Ended

In Arabic,
الدعابة اللانهائية

>>7311086
This sounds like a possible Arabic translation as well.

النكتة التي لا تنتهي

In British,
Continuous Holiday by Duncan Fraser Williams

When will we get a translation to Internet English, [Keks Eternally]?

>>7307914

IS SHE??

>>7307914
>>7311156
No.

>>7311156

yeah

she writes niche contemporary whatever but it's good reads

Buddhist version: Everlasting Happiness

Christian version: Immortal Joy

Atheist version: Incalculable Euphoria

>>7311154
Nigger be nog

>>7311188
>be Wardine
>cri everi time

>>7311117

Nice try,

I think you meant

Endless Banter, By David 'Lad' Wallace

>>7311080
isn't that overstepping a bit, given that Infinite Jest is Hamletian almost as much as Ulysses is Odyssean?

>>7312289
well the book is still hamletian, even if the title no longer alludes to hamlet

>>7311180
Meme version: Top Kek

>>7311188
Nice numbers.

I actually really like DFW and what he writes.

I think Good old Neon is a masterpiece

>>7313194
I do too. I meme out of love.

>>7311180
Why does Wallace trigger ironists so much?

>>7309971
>the decedent can't think, the decedent can't write

>>7313213
This actually fooled me because it reminded me of pic related.

I was gonna say, holy shit, this guy looked totally different month to month in the 80s.

>>7312359
But then isn't that like translating Ulysses as the equivalent of "Paradise Tossed"?

>>7309755
>tape his own hands behind his back
How does this work?

>>7311104
Do you really think that anyone else here reads that irrelevant garbage?

>>7313205
>I meme out of love
kek'd

>>7313347
Its better than that. the general sense is preserved from infinite jest to infinite comedy.

>>7306732

Is it just me or does her face look kinda like Ayn Rand's?

>>7313959

it's just you

Does anyone have the vid of the college kid shouting "DFW" out of his car at night?

>>7313959
in that pic it does

>>7313970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

david foster wallace is the best!