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>10 page section about moving a mattress.

>> No.11061104

Dang he cute

>> No.11061112

>>11061098
Damn I'll be 24 this year. Imagining what it'd be like if I was friends with young Dave

>> No.11061129

he looks way younger than 24 in that picture. the dude aged like shit.

anyway wallace was a master of taking something mundane and simple and overanalyzing the shit out of it. for such an anxious guy you'd think his anxiety writing wouldn't be so stilted.

>> No.11061162

>>11061104
here's an interesting thought; would DFW had become as popular if he kept the same sort of appearance?

>> No.11061168

>tfw about to turn 25 and only 3 short stories published, one psuedonymously

>> No.11061174

>>11061162
Obviously not. Goodlooks is the major decider in all success in life
Why is this even a question

>> No.11061184

>>11061174
why the fuck are you on /lit/ with such piss poor reading comprehension

>> No.11061203

>>11061184
You’re the one who used “had” instead of “have” and doesn’t know how to use semicolons.

>> No.11061303

>>11061168
oh fuck you

>> No.11061332

>>11061168

>tfw published in a national poetry anthology ten years ago followed by ten years of rejection letters

If I don't get published again soon I'm going to walk into traffic

>> No.11061409

>>11061332
Stay strong, brother. We will see the light of publication again.

>> No.11062051

>>11061168
I'm 28 and I've only been published once. You seem to have a good thing going. Stick with it.

>> No.11062059

>>11061098
>mfw DFW is in his HS yearbook as "Most Likely to Kill Themselves"

>> No.11062068

>>11062059
what

>> No.11062069

>>11062068
>11062068
you heard me

>> No.11062071

>>11061168
yet you can't spell sudonim

>> No.11062122

>>11061098
Too bad /fitlit/ wasn't a thing in 1985.

>> No.11062951

>>11061098
>implying it wasn't an interesting section with a beautiful conclusion relating to the main plot