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10088217 No.10088217 [Reply] [Original]

Was he even sincere?

>> No.10088222

*punches you in the face*

>> No.10088223

>>10088217
no. he even killed himself ironically

>> No.10088284

>>10088217
yes

>> No.10088306
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>>10088217
He was. I don't particularly like his work, and yet I think his oeuvre will continue to grow in significance as time goes on. This is because he became a man of his time, encapsulated the essence of late 20th and 21st century America. unfortunately for him, his time (and ours today) was oppressively complicated, meaningless, and empty. He simply put into words the nothingness of our "culture" after synchronizing its voice with the one in his head and therefore his pen. How could you not destroy yourself in such a situation?

His writing annoyed me, I found it overdone, contrived, needlessly obtuse, and more often than not superfluous. America annoys me. I find it overdone, unnecessarily obtuse, contrived, and completely and utterly devoid of any sort of unifying meaning or ideal. He tried to find mysticism in this hollow casket of a country, all the while knowing there wasn't any. He is a hero in my mind.

>> No.10088310

>>10088217
No, and I think that's why he couldn't finish The Pale King. He couldn't help himself but right the exact same kind of stuff he hated, but in an artificially self-aware way.

>> No.10088311

>>10088310
>but write*

>> No.10088316

>>10088306
>this writing may be shit, but so is my SOUL

>> No.10088321

>>10088217
he was sincerely a talentless depressed hack, yes.

see how that works.

>> No.10088322

>>10088316
I don't think his soul became shit until he committed himself to being the voice of a generation.

>> No.10089223

No. He did literally everything for pussy.

>> No.10089229
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10089229

he was sincere in one and only one of his acts.

I'll let you guess which one it was.

>> No.10089239

>>10088217
the new sincerity he called for was not his own. that movement was exemplified by Fight Club, actually. the most sincere picture of the postmodern man in existence.

>> No.10090800

>>10088222
look what happened when you were dreaming

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>>10089223
You base this on seeing the film and a couple of articles, don't you?

>> No.10090935

His only sincere act was duct tapping his hands together before jumping off the chair

>> No.10090938

>>10089229
His love of Tennis?

>> No.10090941

>>10088217
Elliott Smith? I think so.

>> No.10090958

>>10088217
sincerely stoned, yea

>> No.10091951

>>10090941
Elliott Smith was probably more sincere than Wallace, if we're being real here.

>> No.10092349

>>10088310
this

>> No.10093854

>>10088217
>jokes on you I was only pretending to have no discernible talent