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In your best prose, write a short essay on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (RIP)

>> No.9377655
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9377655

>>9377624
Never read it
It sucks
Rare Dave

>> No.9377661

>>9377655
Is not that rare

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>>9377661

>> No.9377700

>>9377663
Stop posting that pepe.

>> No.9377715

>>9377624
>RIP
No, anon. He is not resting in peace. He is burning in hell for his sins.

>> No.9377732

>>9377715
Haha ebin

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>> No.9377912

>>9377715

suicide being a sin you can't be forgiven for (since there is no time to be forgiven) is based on the idea that suicide is a choice

given what we now know about depression, it's extremely debatable whether DFW's suicide was a "choice"

>> No.9377913

>>9377912
You always have a choice :^)

>> No.9377917

>>9377715
>hell
>sins
haha

>> No.9378337

>>9377624
I wrote my EE over it and escapism but no way in hell I'm sharing it here

>> No.9378370

Book was disappointment, waste of time.

>> No.9378372

it bad

>> No.9378374

good book to smash flies with
heavy, large cover and SMOOTh so that you can easily wipe it off

i haven't killed a fly in years i always open the window and try to make them leave

>> No.9378539

>>9378374
Beta

>> No.9378547

>>9377912
it's a choice when you do it ironically.

>> No.9378743

>>9377655
I wish I could be a walking stick qt boy like young Dave

>> No.9378829

>>9377700
ive posted it like once

>> No.9378845

>>9378374
>he can't catch flies with his hand

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9379257

what fi fuck why

>> No.9380077

>>9377912
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

>> No.9380605

>>9377624
He can't think, can't write, and has no discernible talent.

-Irwin Corey