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say something nice about david foster wallace

>> No.11877486

>>11877476
He kinda cute

>> No.11877490

if i was a grill id sit on his face

>> No.11877525

>>11877486
>>11877490
These homos find him attractive.

>> No.11877537

>>11877525
Jokes on you I'm a girl ;)

>> No.11877543

>>11877476
Infinite Jest is a good book.

>> No.11877573

>>11877543
I read his essay on the illinois state fair and part of his essay on tv yesterday and enjoyed them both

>> No.11877576

>>11877476
He killed himself.

>> No.11877578

>>11877576
no bully in my thread pls

>> No.11877600

>>11877537
An ugly one, I bet.

>> No.11877635

>>11877476
He was pretty successful at KYS himself.

>> No.11877640

wankery for hipsters

>> No.11877645

he could tie a mean knot

>> No.11877661

Wrote quite nicely in ebonics for his literary blackface acts.

>> No.11877748

I'm reading Interviews with Hideous men and some of it is not good at all.

>> No.11877757

>>11877600
Hotter than you could ever get sweetie

>> No.11878007

>>11877757
I doubt it.

>> No.11878012

>>11877476
Father of MetaModernism, bless his heart.

>> No.11878018

he had a big imagination

>> No.11878019

>>11877757
Pics or fuck off (if real girl am sorry)

>> No.11878025

cool bandana dude

>> No.11878026

>>11878018
Big? For you

>> No.11878059

>>11878026
thousands of pages of prose by mid forties is quite big for me

>> No.11878101

>>11877476
He took the best decision a worthless writer could take.

>> No.11878112

>>11878026
Who is DFW? Why does he wear the headband?

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>>11877476
you have a lovely smile

>> No.11878512

>>11878112
He is sweet but sweaty.

>> No.11878522

I will never not laugh at the greatly deserved ridicule of this hack fraud. DFW will be remembered by posterity as the most incompetent snake oil salesman western literature has ever produced.

The only sincere act of his life was when he kicked away the chair. His life was nothing but a series of ironies and lies predicated on the the joke that is new sincerity. The big punchline was the creaking of the rafter and the piss trickling down his leg to the floor.

His epiphany that the only viable thing for him to do was to kill himself was the best thing to happen to literature in 30 years since he began writing. Because behind all the self aware gimmicks and self help books and the drugs and the audience pussy there was no discernible talent

>> No.11878532

>>11878522
damn son

>> No.11878548

>>11878522
>predicated on the the joke that is new sincerity.
explain, please

>> No.11878564

>>11878548
are you joking m8?

>> No.11878568

>>11878564
no, redpill me, pretend I don't know anything

>> No.11878571

>>11878568
I can't tell if you're being serious.

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>>11878522

>> No.11878575

>>11878522
Underrated post

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>>11878571
I'm being serious, m8. I'm not flaming you, I'm not calling you wrong, I'm just a brainlet who doesn't know much about the term "new sincerity"

>> No.11878605

>>11878598
OK I'm seriously asking you, no bullshit, are you being ironic rn by pretending to say you're serious?

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>>11878605
No bullshit, m8. I honestly don't know much about it except for dabbling in David Foster Wallace's writing for about 20 pages before realizing that its exactly the kind of garbage that you say it is. But I've only heard the term "new sincerity" in passing, so please kindly explain to me what makes it bullshit.

>> No.11878729

>>11877476
I think he was a gang member or something. I think he was in one of those street gangs.

>> No.11878753

>>11877476
He is an hero.

>> No.11880037

>>11878522

I just finished Consider the Lobster, and most of it was absolutely masterful. He is self-aware, intelligent, has an impressive vocabulary, is a balanced critic, his writing is humourous and clever, and most importantly, I couldn't put it down.

Maybe his fiction is a meme (haven't read any yet), but as an essayist and reviewer, he is remarkable.

>> No.11880043

>>11878522
Extremely good.
Let us not forget his parents were wealthy professors.
Mr. Wallace led a life of ease. He knew no struggle. His decision to kill himself was the realization he was a fraud and was in fact, very insincere.

>> No.11880237

I like his books and some of his interviews on youtube are comfy

>> No.11880241

>>11880037
If you liked Consider the Lobster you'll probably like his other stuff too. I read CtL first and loved it then read IJ and also loved it
>>11880043
>Let us not forget his parents were wealthy professors.
MUH NEPOTISM
Yeah, because he's the only writer in the history of literature to have wealthy parents and who led an "easy" life

>> No.11880251

>>11880241
Easy life = bad person.

>> No.11881786

bump

>> No.11881810

>>11878522
>when the footnote's 10 pages long

>> No.11881826

>>11877476
Is there any decent short story in "the girl with strange hair" or "brief interviews with hideous men" ? I've been told that a short stoy featured in Oblivion was really worth it, but I don't own it.