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Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:30:50 2018 No.10799648 [Reply] [Original]

I miss him so much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:39:04 2018 No.10799675 Talk to me David, what do you think about social media, talk to me!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:39:46 2018 No.10799681 You started reading the Wikipedia article on Infinite Jest a month ago, Anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:40:42 2018 No.10799685 >>10799681 wikipedia article is better written than the book desu

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:45:17 2018 No.10799708

I’ve read Infinite Jest, The Pale King, and Consider the Lobster. Part of me wants to go ahead and just read everything he’s ever written, but I don’t know if his sensibility is one we should hope to internalize... I mean, the guy did kill himself. It’s not to say that reading someone will make you exactly like them, but surely his anxieties will rub off. And, as talented as he was, his life was a goddamn mess. Does anyone feel this way?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:46:58 2018 No.10799715 Those type of shoes are coming back into style. Cant wait to roll up on some hoes sportin some DFWs

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:53:55 2018 No.10799753 >>10799681 I'm reading it for a third time as we speak, senpai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:55:20 2018 No.10799758 File: 102 KB, 1024x683, Jordan Peterson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10799708 >Consider the Lobster

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:57:47 2018 No.10799766 >>10799758 we have caught a glimpse of the collective unconsciousness here

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 17:59:07 2018 No.10799773

>>10799708
Yeah, his autismic levels of information gathering is something to behold. I've only seen a few other writers sniff at his abilities, in all honestly. I try to forget how deranged he was when I interpret his work, but I end up seeing a lot of myself in his characters. Just have to take it all with a grain of salt, I suppose.

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:00:19 2018 No.10799784

>>10799766
>Lobsters' utilization in ancient times varied, ranging from complete
prohibition by the Jewish religion, to that of epicurean status in the Roman
world.

http://www.athensjournals.gr/mediterranean/2015-1-3-1-Spanier.pdf

it's an old conflict

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:11:50 2018 No.10799837 The Pale King had so much fucking potential it could have been even better than IJ. If only he could have stuck it out. I really wish I could understand what was going through his mind during his last week.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:14:40 2018 No.10799851 Where do I start with him? Some of his essays?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:20:46 2018 No.10799879 >>10799851 If you really want to start somewhere you can read his brilliant thesis

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:29:20 2018 No.10799902 >>10799837 Knowing what it could've been really gets to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 18:49:53 2018 No.10799965 >>10799837 >>10799902 Quick rundown?

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 19:01:38 2018 No.10799996

>>10799965
David Foster Wallace.....he eliminated his map before he finished the Pale King. He was only half way through it. He struggled with depression most of his life...changed meds cause he thought it was effecting his creativity but he spiraled into a particularily terrible depression and killed himself in 2008. He was only in his 40s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 20:02:40 2018 No.10800277 >>10799648 Was he even sincere?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 20:07:40 2018 No.10800303 >>10799773 But it was 100% junk information.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 20:46:21 2018 No.10800523 >>10800303 I'd rather look at baroque than look at a Picasso.

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 21:05:20 2018 No.10800618

>>10799648
ten years ago this september lads
i don't want to get really emotional or anything, but when i was an undergrad, infinite jest was the shit. i remember learning about it from my pseud classmates my first semester. i remember getting my hands on that book in late october and finishing just three days before finals started. i still get that pang of nostalgia ripping through my heart every time i see the stupid cloud cover. it's not just of reading but of college of annie of life during the bush administration when i came to age, the terrible music, the film industry dominated by silly comedies, the sincerity of it all. he eliminated his own map for keeps my senior year, and things changed, in my own life, in society, grad school sucked all of the will to live out of me and it honestly seems like the rest of the country followed suit
i know it's silly to connect those things but they always will be in my mind

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 21:32:49 2018 No.10800717

>>10799675
Can you imagine what he would've written about the like button on Facebook? About the vanity parade that it is Instagram and how people's insecurities work within the social media work frame? Can you fathom Harper's paying him to attend some huge YouTube event and write about his experience? I seriously feel bad he off'd himself. He still had a lot to see and talk about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 21:34:58 2018 No.10800723 >>10800717 DFW's suicide doomed us as a society.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 21:37:01 2018 No.10800729 File: 24 KB, 439x355, 1519365835332.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10799648 >missing a plebeian

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 23:55:58 2018 No.10801233 File: 30 KB, 620x447, dfwded.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10800723

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 00:13:11 2018 No.10801279 >>10799708 Read Good Old Neon and realize how (hopefully) unlike him you are, depression-wise

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 03:08:15 2018 No.10801687 >>10800729 >implying he wasn't a chad

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 03:11:28 2018 No.10801699 A must listen: http://radioopensource.org/david-foster-wallace-chris-lydon/ He predicted VR porn.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 06:30:53 2018 No.10802157 infinite jest was pretentious long-winded drivel

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 12:03:06 2018 No.10803060 File: 18 KB, 272x204, 63290-full.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10800729 >ywn have a relaxing night with DFW talking about books and society >ywn laugh with him >ywn get to shake his hand >ywn get to shitpost on /lit/ with him

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 12:14:21 2018 No.10803112 >>10802157 (You)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 12:52:12 2018 No.10803217 >>10801699 Good post, never heard this interview before

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:00:24 2018 No.10803240 Those shoes are fire

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:06:43 2018 No.10803268 >>10801699 You can hear the pain in his voice. I don't think he was ever cut out for the spotlight

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:22:46 2018 No.10803328 Would he have voted Clinton or Trump?

Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:24:26 2018 No.10803337

>>10803328
he would have been a pro-romney never trumper, remember he supported bush the first, and mccain...he was not a radical thinker, which is why he was promoted to be the "voice of a generation" cuz having some anarchist anti-globalization hippy just wouldn't do

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:24:34 2018 No.10803338 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-Q9GHmJGc

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:24:38 2018 No.10803339 >>10799648 >railing is more in focus than the actual portrait subject lol memeblad faggot lrn 2 photo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:33:38 2018 No.10803379 >>10801699 >He predicted VR porn. Bethke wrote an entire novel on this and related subjects a year earlier in 1995.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 13:37:14 2018 No.10803393 >>10803379 who the hell didn't know vr porn would be a thing, my god man how much of a brainlet do u have to be to be wowed by a pseud like wallace

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 6 16:48:13 2018 No.10804261 >>10803060 dude he'd be like 56 now

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