/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11309917]

so can we all agree that the cameraman must be some kind of a /lit/ lost guy? a wild genius living another life and having a normal job?

[Anonymous No.11310235]

>>11309917
also I hope I never see the interviewer because she sounded like an uber-qt

[Anonymous No.11310369]

>>11310235
homo detected

[Anonymous No.11311411]

I always have to fast forward the part where they're passive aggressive towards each other. It hurts

[Anonymous No.11311535]

how was Dfw being passive aggressive? He couldve easily made the camera guy look like a dumbfuck for aggressively using "pontificating" incorrectly, but he was gracious not to

[Anonymous No.11311551]

>>11311411
The cameraman was a dude with low self-esteem trying to sucker punch Wallace in the dick. Pontificating my ass.

[Anonymous No.11311637]

>>11311535
True DFW wasn't be very passive aggressive you're right. Still awkward tho

[Anonymous No.11311669]

>>11311551
This. Dave wasn't pontificating in the slightest. Even if he hadn't been invited to an interview and specifically been asked questions for him to answer, he still wasn't responding in a way that was pontificatory. If I skip that part, it's only because of how heavily the cameraman embarrasses himself.

[Anonymous No.11311791]

>>11311669
the cameramanette*

[Anonymous No.11311826]

>>11310235
That's her :^)

[Anonymous No.11311827]

He said that he was pontificating. So fucking insanely rude Im glad he elbowed that fucking rat in the face.

[Anonymous No.11311845]

>>11311827
It was a german cameraman he probably didn't even know what pontificating really meant.

[Anonymous No.11311859]

>>11309917
In this interview he looks and sounds and has the mannerisms of Michael Shanks playing Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG1.

I wonder if Shanks did that on purpose, if DFW was his inspiration

[Anonymous No.11311884]

idk why but dfw always seemed absolutely fake in this interview. his facial tics, the fake sighs, the pensive brow scrunching. this whole interview bothered me. and why was he whispering?

[Anonymous No.11311910]

>>11311884
I love it.
I watch it everytime when I'm drunk, sad and lonely; don't know why to

[Anonymous No.11311916]

>>11311535
>>11311669
He used it 100% correctly. DFW was whining about the American culture and namedropping Wittgenstein, he even expressed concern that he was being pretentious and setting himself up for ridicule by acting like such a faggot. Cameraman was an alpha and obliterated DFW's "sensitive self-conscious smart guy" image with a passing comment.

[Anonymous No.11312261]

>>11311884
The choo-choo train chimney sound he makes always kills me.

[Anonymous No.11312278]

>>11311916
Nah, you're a little dim when it comes to context.

[Anonymous No.11312288]

>>11311916
Watch out everyone, we've got bret easton ellis over here

[Anonymous No.11312363]

>>11311859
Underrated

[Anonymous No.11312387]

>>11311826
NO

[Anonymous No.11312400]

>>11311551
Odd. I always had the sense that the camera man was making an appeal to david's high brow sense of language and simply made the mistake of grasping for something complimentary of his thoughtful countenance by misusing / using a word he didn't know the meaning of. Didn't you feel that too? There was no bad blood, he was trying to be cordial, but he didn't know how to, and dfw being the insecure narcissist he is, immediately interpreted it as a personal attack. Which I don't think it was.

[Anonymous No.11312443]

>>11311910
Same, I've seen it countless times
It's so comfy, like me and him are having a convo

[Anonymous No.11312446]

PONTIFICATING

[Anonymous No.11312479]

>>11312400
Yeah I have a feeling the cameraman didn't have a good definition for "pontificating". I think he wanted to use it like you use the word "gesticulating".

[Anonymous No.11312502]

>>11312400
either this or he was jealous. felt threatened and had to try and diminish dfw in front of the qt interviewer.

[Anonymous No.11312517]

>>11311826
is that actually her? would plow

[Anonymous No.11312531]

>>11312479
Hanlon's razor: don't attribute to malice what can be explained for by stupidity

[Anonymous No.11312543]

>>11312502
Dude, he wanted to bone the interviewer and felt like she had fallen to DFW's impeccable rhetoric. Isn't it obvious?

[Anonymous No.11312554]

>>11310235
>>11311826
>>11312502
>>11312517
>>11312543
you just KNOW

[Anonymous No.11312567]

>>11312554
based

[Anonymous No.11312599]

this interview is really awkward and not conversational.

[Anonymous No.11312673]

>>11312599
thats why we love it desu

[Anonymous No.11312687]

Well, it gets better over time. The stuff about TV and how the ease of channels is killing society is, uhh, passe. I read it before in Amusing Ourselves to Death.

However, the phrase "patterns of meaning develop over time" with reference to literature and movies vs. visual art is interesting concept / and a poignant phrase.

I would argue you can't actually choose how long to consume visual art because that decision was made beforehand (similarly to thinking five moves ahead in tennis).

[Anonymous No.11312700]

Theres just something compelling in listening to him talk and the convo feels real, even if its awkward now and then

[Anonymous No.11312726]

watching it now, I think the cameraman is just a retard with a small vocabulary

[Anonymous No.11312739]

>>11312700
his speaking style is like his writing in that its really precise and interesting. memes aside it actually does suck that hes dead

[Anonymous No.11312806]

>>11312517
yes

http://nainsdorgue.over-blog.com/article-unendlicher-spa-von-david-foster-wallace-beitrag-im-zdf-fernsehen-122349965.html

"Es ist ein tief trauriges Buch, wenn man es durchsteht aber auch ein unendlicher Spaß, meint Miriam Böttger, die David Foster Wallace kannte und das einzige deutsche Fernsehinterview mit ihm führte"

[Anonymous No.11312916]

>>11311916
I like DFW but this is correct