/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10467014]

>Going on a date
>Topic changes to depression because we're both privileged gen Z upper middle class college students
>"My favorite author talks about this sorta stuff a lot"
>"Oh yeah, who?"
>"David Foster Wallace"
>"You're the 3rd guy I've dated that's mentioned him. You all even look the same."
>Try and backpeddle and talk about how I know that only douchebag men like DFW and but of course I like him and I'm just as bad as them
>End up deep dicking her anyway
Has this happened to anyone else? Is DFW back in vogue?

[Anonymous No.10467034]

Back in vogue? Same shit fifteen years ago when I was twenty desu. Did his popularity wane between then? It's always the same few.

[Anonymous No.10467043]

>>10467014
>favorite author
>David Foster Wallace

The fact that she didn't get up and leave at this point should have been a major red flag.

[Anonymous No.10467044]

>>10467014
that is a john green tier quote

[Anonymous No.10467056]

>>10467014
isnt DFW more of a millenial soyboy and gen x thing

[Anonymous No.10467060]

and this is the story of how OP go herpes

[Anonymous No.10467459]

> college student
> gen z

[Anonymous No.10467465]

>>10467459
>18 and 19 year olds
>not college students

[Anonymous No.10467474]

You sound like a shit bloke

[Anonymous No.10467478]

>>10467465
Born in the 90s, ie the end of the millennium. You're not gen z.

[Anonymous No.10467487]

>>10467478
People born in 1998 and 1999 are Gen Z. They barely have anything in common with 90's kids Millenials

[Anonymous No.10467581]

l m a o

[Anonymous No.10467603]

>>10467044

[Anonymous No.10467619]

>>10467014
Back in vogue? It's a contemporary midcult classic, and there is a particular kind of young white guy who tends to talk about David Foster Wallace. Face it: you're a stereotype.

[Anonymous No.10468015]

>>10467014
She wanted the dick and probably attributed next-to-nothing to this exchange. You're just overthinking things, like a Wallacian hero.

[Anonymous No.10468056]

>>10467619
What kind of guy?

[Anonymous No.10468069]

>>10468056
The average /lit/ poster.

[Anonymous No.10468078]

>>10467014

DFW is trash. Grow the fuck up. Also, don't try to backpedal, the girl obviously has trash-tier taste in men.

[Anonymous No.10468084]

>>10467465
I'm 20 and not in college

[Anonymous No.10468512]

>>10468084
Not all of us are mental midgets

[Anonymous No.10468516]

>DFW aka King of the soy
Cuck

[Anonymous No.10468598]

>>10468084
>>10468512
I'm 45 and just got my GED last year

[Anonymous No.10468647]

>>10468512
>college teached me how to think! now me smart! this piece of paper says it! :D

[Anonymous No.10468659]

>>10468647
Dude, this is water

[Anonymous No.10468696]

>>10468659
Can confirm, just got out of the shower

[Anonymous No.10468738]

>>10467044
They were friends

[Anonymous No.10468769]

>>10467487
What the fuck is wrong with you, people born between 1980's to the mid 2000's have an incredible amount in common.

Stupid fucking idiots and their talk of gen z x y

[Anonymous No.10468774]

>>10468647
>>10468659
You are all a bunch of cringy faggots and should feel ashamed of yourselves

[Anonymous No.10468809]

>>10468774
Why are you hanging with us, then?
I'm going to play chess with my dad now, c'ya

[Anonymous No.10468837]

>girl tells you directly to your face that she likes dating the kind of guys who like dfw and has done so multiple times in the past
>girl has sex with you
>act confused

at literally what point do guys turn their brains off and stop learning how to apply common sense to human behavior

[Anonymous No.10468845]

>>10468774
It's fine you feel that way. We're all friends here.

[Anonymous No.10468865]

>>10468837
Guys assume that something must have went deeply wrong in those relationships for them to have ended and that association with them would not be a good thing
Not that women are just whores

[Anonymous No.10468911]

>>10468865
>>10468865
that's another example of guys not applying common sense to human interactions

what a breakup means to a girl:
we were dating but didn't wanna continue it

what a breakup means to a guy:
this bitch hates me, i'm not masculine enough, i need to bang random hoes or i'm a bitch, i'm not attractive enough, i need more money, i need a 6-pack, maybe i need to be more serious in my next relationship, all women are whores, i've treated her badly and now we can't continue, maybe i'm done having gfs and need to fuck bitches, actually i wanna get married, .... etc.

[Anonymous No.10469975]

>>10468911
>this bitch hates me, i'm not masculine enough, i need to bang random hoes or i'm a bitch, i'm not attractive enough, i need more money, i need a 6-pack, maybe i need to be more serious in my next relationship, all women are whores, i've treated her badly and now we can't continue, maybe i'm done having gfs and need to fuck bitches, actually i wanna get married, .... etc.
All true.

[Anonymous No.10470013]

>>10469975
This. Girl think she "didn't want to continue" while men realize why she thought that in the first place.

[Anonymous No.10470021]

>>10468911

Btfo

[Anonymous No.10470022]

>>10467044
DFW is literally just john green for men who wear glasses

[Anonymous No.10470028]

>>10467459
gen z starts in 90-95

a good chunk of Gen Z are actually out of college

[Anonymous No.10470031]

>>10467487
I think video games, rap music, the internet, and neoliberalism means people born in 1985 are way more similar to people born in 2005 than 1965

[Anonymous No.10470041]

>>10467478
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
>Statistics Canada defines Generation Z as starting with the birth year 1993.

>>10467478
the term millenials has been in use since the late 70s, it means 'came of age around the coming of the millenium' not 'born near the millenium'

[Anonymous No.10470071]

>>10467014
Do people really talk about stuff they like on dates? I always get embarrassed that I'm boring my gf when I just talk about films I like let alone opening up about literature.

[Anonymous No.10470112]

>>10470022
>DFW is literally just john green for men who wear glasses

What

[Anonymous No.10470703]

>>10470112
ppl dont realize that "cutting comments" is a stylistic choice not a matter of content

[Anonymous No.10470722]

>>10468837
Post bra

[Anonymous No.10470740]

>>10470022
Hmm.. John Green wears glasses

[Anonymous No.10470772]

>>10467014
Nobody can know when he or she is producing a meme, but we can all identify when something changes into one. If this happened it is time to abandon ship.

[Anonymous No.10470872]

>>10468837
>at literally what point do guys turn their brains off and stop learning how to apply common sense to human behavior
I have no idea what this sentence is trying to say.

[Anonymous No.10470900]

>>10467043
this, unironically.

[Anonymous No.10470905]

>>10467465
Thank you. My autism is somewhat appeased.

[Anonymous No.10470915]

>>10467014
>gen z
Youre a millennial faggot

[Anonymous No.10470933]

>>10470022
True
>>10470740
Ya but john green needs glasses

[Anonymous No.10470941]

>>10468911

This post unironically made me think.

[Anonymous No.10471842]

>>10467581
Thank you

[Anonymous No.10472558]

>>10468911
Men just got 9/11'd.

[Anonymous No.10472597]

>>10467014
honestly I don't know why anyone tries to impress women with literature. I'm sure all that girl has read is YA trash like every other millennial girl but then has the cheek to make some depreciating comment towards you as if reading Infinite Jest is incredibly vanilla to her. Back to reading John Green, you stuck up cunt, and you're lucky you don't get thrown out of a moving car.

[Anonymous No.10472600]

>>10468516
Joycey has been the reigning King of Soy for the past century, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.10472631]

>>10468911
of course, women's sex lives are a post-scarcity world. they have just enough time for a single thought before they're stuffing themselves with more cock.

[Anonymous No.10473259]

>>10470013
>Girl think she "didn't want to continue" while men realize why she thought that in the first place.
Girls can get away with it because they can find another mate in a matter of hours, being picky. Rupture is a hard thing for men, be it purely for such logistical reason.
It's like mass production versus sending a ship into space. In one case, failure is "meh whatever, better luck next time", the other involves all manner of autistic thinking about even very unlikely failure modes.

[Anonymous No.10473854]

>>10473259
>>10472631
Again youre so confused. All you need to do to get a romantic or sexual partner today:

-be emotionally regulated enough to be normal and positive to be around in social interactions
-be yourself
-put yourself around girls (friend group or tinder or something)

The only reason this "scarcity" exists for guys is cause they can't recognize that THEY are too emotionally fucked up to set normal right now and start being creepy. Then they come up with weird conspiracy theories about how society/chad/intergender sexual dynamics/whatever is keeping them down. Or they externalize everything and think they need a promotion/6 pack/publishing deal/whatever to get/keep a girlfriend. Then they'll ask girls for advice and hear that they should get in touch with their emotions more and theyll take it as a weird conspiracy theory to turn them into beta males and start an internet misogyny blog about it. Like i dont even know where we start with this shit.

Youre always gonna be fucked up after a breakup unless the relationship was really bad but that doesn't mean you're not gonna get a gf or youre not permanently unattractive or some shit or that chad is fucking all your womens and you need to be some king douchebag wallstreet bodybuilder fantasy to stop getting hurt. This shit is not that fucking complicated

[Anonymous No.10473904]

I'm 20 and have only ever met one other person in my life who read DFW, and that was a Harvard English major who I leant my copy of Broom of the System to. I genuinely don't understand where you people live where he's so popular that he's cliché. Is this what New England is like for rich people?

[Anonymous No.10473909]

>>10473854
This post is 100% correct but it will be torn apart or ignored because of where we are.

[Anonymous No.10474031]

>>10467043
this

i feel like this is just proof that you need to be stupid to successfully date

[Anonymous No.10474128]

>>10467014
has nobody linked the article yet?
/lit/ is truly dead

[Anonymous No.10474482]

>>10467014
>at least three other guys had cum in her before you

loooool

[Anonymous No.10474509]

>>10467014
If I’m on a date and the topic of favorite authors comes up, who is a safe bet to say to impress anyone worth impressing without painting me as a self-satisfied straight white male?

I’m thinking Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.10474977]

If you can't talk about depression without bringing up David "help i am being crushed by the weight of my own brain" Foster Wallace you should avoid the subject entirely.

[Anonymous No.10475085]

>>10474509
Victor Hugo

[Anonymous No.10476081]

>>10467044
you're not even wrong. swinging this far to the other side of the pendulum on the crest of postmodern anxiety is just as sad as the postmodern anxiety DFW wanted to escape from

[Anonymous No.10476098]

>>10468911
of course it means nothing to you. of course

[Anonymous No.10476103]

>>10473854
oh wow I didn't realize it was so easy. thanks

[Anonymous No.10476228]

>>10473854
this

[Anonymous No.10477546]

>>10474509
>Wow, that's a tough call — I know it's cliché to say this, but I can't pick just one favorite.
>Gun to my head, I'd say [inoffensive classic author (e.g. Dickens)], but I really like [actual favorite], too.
>[Explain why you like your actual favorite in a sentence or two].
>How about you?

[Anonymous No.10477559]

>>10467014
>people unironically like DFW irl

[Anonymous No.10477605]

>>10477559
Any fucking conversation I have with people about books, they will always mention DFW like clockwork.

[Anonymous No.10477632]

>>10477559
I like him meta-sincerely

[Anonymous No.10477648]

>>10474482
>implying all 4 of them didn't use condoms and so but none of them actually had any cum inside her
loooool

[Anonymous No.10477777]

Yo, if I were to make fun of DFW by referring to him as 'Gravy Pasta Wallet' would you know who I was talking about?
Thought it was pretty clever myself, but it hasn't garnered much of a reaction, so I'm thinking it might be a bit too cerebral for /lit/.
Maybe it's SO clever that it leaves assblasted DFW fans unable to reply.

[Anonymous No.10477896]

>>10477777
Even if I didn't get it at first, I would laugh when I finally did. I personally love pointless wordplay like that, so I encourage it.

[Anonymous No.10477914]

>>10474509
Tell her to read SIEGE