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Hi guys it's David Foster Wallace here

>> No.10681910

>>10681906
Hey what's up

>> No.10681911

>>10681906
I thought you died

>> No.10681912

How's it hanging?

>> No.10681917
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>>10681912

>> No.10681922

>>10681906
Hang yourself harder charlatan!

>> No.10681939

>>10681911
>Implying faking your own death isn't a brilliant career move

>> No.10681982
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And but so what happened?

>> No.10682000

>>10681906
yo dude, that's so sin^-2x(cool)

>> No.10682004

>>10681906
Were you even sincere?

>> No.10682007

>>10681906
So is this really water?

>> No.10682016

>>10682000
in your digits I was happy
>>10682004
in your digits I was sad
>>10682007
in your digits I was happy again

>> No.10682049

>>10681982
What's the story behind this interview? Was he on something?

>> No.10682057

>>10682049
clearly you never saw DFW outside of this interview

>> No.10682062

>>10682057
Not on video, but he depicts himself as a relatively normal person in his nonfiction.

>> No.10682066

>>10682062
>trusting books for depictions of reality

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>>10682062

>> No.10682124

>>10681906
Would you say there's a Great Concavity inside us all?

>> No.10682152

>>10682109
holy shit toppest kek

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>>10682109
>that little smirk when zadie looks back and smiles at him

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>>10681906
Hi guys it's Devil Foster Wallace here

>> No.10682206

>>10682198
go away Devil Foster Wallace

>> No.10682223

>>10682162
it all could have ended better lad

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>>10682198
>playing the advocate's devil

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>>10682223
:'^(

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guys sometimes when i am lurking in DFW threads and having lots of laughs and giggles and experiencing some worthwhile jests... sometimes i get legitimately sad that the dude was depressed as hell all his life (just like myself) and it makes me suddenly feel a lot of undesired feels
and but so... any books for this feel?

>> No.10682277

>>10682258
Infinite Jest
retard

>> No.10682286

>http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/wallace,%20david%20foster_report.pdf
>Electro Shock Therapy twelve times

yeah, this guy was sad

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>tfw you do that supposedly fun thing again

>> No.10682294

>>10682109
>>10682245
goddamn zadie was one cute little mulatto
did they fug

>> No.10682366

>>10682277
this is literally the one answer i did not want and it is the only answer i received
i now feel much, much worse

>> No.10682370

>>10682366
oblivion

>> No.10682715

>>10682294
do you want them to

>> No.10682831

>>10682016
How were you in your own digits, anon? You will be dead in mine :^(

>> No.10682908

>>10682286
Why was there duct tape around his wrists?
My guess is that if he were to suddenly become conscious and try to free himself, the duct tape would complicate that? I don't know though.

>> No.10682912

>>10682908

He had a terrible fear of fucking up an attempt. He bound his own hands behind him before he kicked the stool.

>> No.10682916

>>10682908
In the report it mentions that he attempted once, then went and taped his wrists so he couldn't break free and completed his hanging.
Fuck.

>> No.10683027

i'd kill myself too if I were writing The Pale King, a book about how to endure boredom

>> No.10683329

>>10681906
Why does he wear the bandana?

>> No.10683347

>>10683329
Due to fears over excessive forehead sweating, from what I've heard

>> No.10683373

>>10683329
It's genuinely because he thought it looked cool like a rockstar.

>> No.10683990

>>10682124
Great Convexity you moron

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>>10683329
lotta loyalty for a depressed writer

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Was this a good cast?

>> No.10684627

>>10682715
yeah obviously

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Test

>> No.10684708

>>10684661
We live in the golden age of traps

>> No.10685049

>>10684611
"no"

>> No.10685637

>>10682286
How did he manage to be such a functional normie?

>> No.10686416

>>10682245
>Franzen looking sweaty and confused in the background of every picture

>> No.10686426

>>10683990
Fucking Nucks I swear

>> No.10686491

>>10686416
Imagine if Franzen had actually killed himself and not dfw. Dfw would had written his masterpiece about it.

>> No.10686503

>>10682109
Why did he dress like that

>> No.10686515

>>10683329
if he took it off, it would be very painful

>> No.10686679
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>>10681906
I took a creative nonfiction course with him at Ponoma back in '94. We weren't allowed to show anyone our essays outside of the class for some reason. He seemed naturally intelligent, didnt need to look at any notes or textbooks or prepare for any lectures, he just knew his stuff and was super casual.

I saw him talking to a girl on campus one day. He uncharacteristically wore a Fila sweatsuit, the kind that looks like it's made from the same material as parachutes, and trainer sneakers with a matching bandana. That was his pussy hunt outfit apparently. Several times a week, same outfit, I'd see him hitting on women in it. I once saw him wearing it while carrying an identical outfit from the dry cleaners, he had like 4 sets of same Fila sweatsuit.

I asked him about it in class and he said we aren't allowed to discuss anything unrelated to class while inside class, the same way we can't show anyone outside of class our essays. A student called out "but Dostoevsky isn't in this class and last week you talked about replicating his black tea obsession to test its affects on your own writing". Wallace stared blankly at the student with dead eyes for 30 seconds in dead silence then said "you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so." and pushed up his glasses with his index finger.

I remember telling myself this guy will either be super successful or kill himself.

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Any comments on this?

>> No.10686848

>>10686842
So what was Tristero?

>> No.10687106

>>10682049

He was (maybe performativley) highly nervous in front of a camera.

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>>10686679
>still posting this

>> No.10687145

>>10687106
>(maybe performativley)
most likely not. he wrote a lot on sweating in various essays, letters etc

>> No.10687306

>>10684611
We wouldn't know because it's a whole other person. I don't think even Lipsky can claim to have known the man himself, not from only a few interviews. Except maybe in the biblical sense.

>> No.10687449

>>10684611
I was honestly surprised by how well the whole thing turned out. It wasn't just pure hagiography like I figured it would be. The whole "just be a good guy" thing from the trailer had me worried they were going to peddle the whole Saint Dave thing, with him elucidating Lipsky on how to be a decent/concious modern human or whatever. But in the context of the film he is kind of intimidating Lipsky for perceivedly coming on to one of DFW's old romantic interests. If nothing else, they captured his capacity for jealousy and posturing (as well as all the tortured genius shit which we all showed up for in the first place).

>> No.10687461

>>10687449
> whole whole whole

God I need to proofread my posts

>> No.10687536

So Dave, if you decided to complete the pale king, how would you've finished it? Also I have to say the Gaddis influence in that book is strong.

>> No.10687559

>>10687536
To answer the first part: very carefully.

And as for Gaddis, never heard of him.

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>>10681906
How do I write like him, /lit/?

>> No.10687801

>>10687639
fist you have to lose every regard you have for the rules

>> No.10688041

>>10687639
Write academic papers for a year or two, then take every practice you learned there and apply it to fiction.

>> No.10688123

>>10687449
I agree. Showed him as a talented but ultimately flawed and troubled person just like the rest of us.

Plus that fucking ending was kino
>ywn be eulogized with the big ship by brian eno playing

>> No.10688139

>>10682258
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

>> No.10688243

>>10687639
Read some Pynchon.

>> No.10688275

>>10681906
I'm sorry these fucking pseud niggers besmirch your good name

>> No.10688298

>>10688275
you wouldn't even know about dfw if not for the memes

>> No.10688343

>>10688298
my phil teacher told us about an essay he wrote last year at the start of class, very first day of class in fact.

>> No.10688383

>>10687639
lose all discernible talent

>> No.10689513
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>>10681912
quack!

>> No.10689696

>>10681906
I'm reading Infinite Jest now. Quite a childish humour you got there. I thought it was going to be darker.

>> No.10689721

>>10687639
get high on being sincere and read a lot of DeLillo

also, does anyone have the LAWS REGARDING PROSE meme macro?

>> No.10689727

>>10684627
Cuck