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Me at family gatherings verbatim.

>> No.12453088

fuck off

>> No.12453091

Based and redpilled, mods sticky

>> No.12453163

DFW was a crackpot and a borderline schizophrenic whose only reason for being missed is the fact that he fucking left. Lousy story teller, interesting tid bits in the pale king though.

>> No.12453173

Does anyone who isn't a white guy like DFW and/or IJ?

Everyone who likes this slop is literally some white suburbanite. Shit is FUBU for ugly nerds.

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>>12453173
Zadie Smith loved Infinite Jest and his short stories

>> No.12453204

>>12453192
>>12453173
>When I taught Brief Interviews to college kids I made them read it alongside Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. The two books seem like cousins to me. Both find black comedy in hideous men who feel themselves post-love, post-faith, post-everything. ‘When people nowadays will not stop at love,’ wrote Kierkegaard, ‘where is it that they are going? To worldly wisdom, petty calculation, to paltriness and misery? [. . .] Would it not be better to remain standing at faith, and for the one who stands there to take care not to fall?’ The truth, he argued, is that we haven’t even got as far as faith. Kierkegaard took faith seriously, recognized it as an impossible task, at least for him. Dave took faith seriously, too: it’s his hideous men who don’t. The most impassioned book recommendation he ever gave me was for Catholics by Brian Moore, a novella about a priest who, after forty years in a monastery, finds he still isn’t capable of prayer. Anyone who thinks Dave primarily an ironist should note that choice. His is a serious kind of satire, if by satire we mean ‘the indirect praise of good things’.

>> No.12453240

>>12453192
>>12453204
You found one token black. Gold star?

>> No.12453258

>>12453240
https://www.dfwsociety.org/2017/08/08/scholarly-pieces-by-women-on-dfw/

>> No.12453302

>>12453240
Salty you got proven wrong and proves you didnt actually wanna know but merely wanted to insult people anonymously like the huge pussy you are

>> No.12453308

>>12453173
Im black and enjoy DFW. He is white jesus to a certain type of writer/thinker though. IJ is hugely overrated as far as literature, but is pretty good for consciousness change. Brief Interviews will give you the best of his thinking and tricks in a much better package.

>> No.12453340

>>12453204
Not stopping at love isn't a choice, Soren, we go past love because of a disilluisonment that we dont even want, but cant ignore if we want to be honest with ourselves. Certainly there are faggots who wanna pose and say they dont care about love or nerds who say "its all jus chemicals anyway", but those are more pre-love than post, if anything.

Why can't we push to believe in love like the priests in Shusaku's Silence and Ginal Martyrs do to hold their belief in faith? Is it because we can see the person we were in love with, but cant see god? Shouldnt that make us more inclined to lose faith than to lose belief in love?

>> No.12453347

>>12453308
Dfw post 2000 is better, Oblivion and Pale king are far better reads than Hideous Men and IJ imo

>> No.12454376

Trump

>> No.12454392

>>12453081
Yikes

>> No.12454394

>>12453081
Why? Do you like wrong mathematics?

>> No.12454447

>>12453173
I'm Indian, and nowhere near America. I really love what I've read. Haven't read IJ yet, but Brief Interviews, Oblivion, his essays have made quite an impact on me.

Along with other things, there's something about how he covers mundane humanity that elevates it to a feeling of magical realism.

>> No.12454453

>>12453163
>a crackpot and a borderline schizophrenic whose only reason for being missed is the fact that he fucking left
Me at family gatherings verbatim

>> No.12454463

>>12453163
My life

>> No.12454609

>>12453163
>Only reason for being missed is cause he left
What the fuck does this even mean? Thats like saying the only reason he died is because he committed suicide. No shit retard

>> No.12454611

>>12453173
can someone tell me what the fuck FUBU stands for
the only thing that comes up on google is the clothing brand and i'm guessing that isn't what you're talking about

>> No.12455853

>>12454611
Maybe FUBU is popular among white people of a particular persuasion and that's what anon is getting at.

>> No.12455941

>>12453081
"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."
-John Green

Just repeating from the last thread: this is a genuinely great line, to me. I read it as the reflection of someone who is penetratingly intelligent, yet humble enough to acknowledge the limitations of their ruminations. Rather, the sentence itself drips of intellect to an outside onlooker, but the speaker of it seems entirely humble. To me, it instantly transports me into the mind of a deep soul, who is presently somewhat dejected in their life, contemplating the incompetencies of their contemplations. It feels like a real soul lives behind these words.

The line employs nice form as well, with the first rhyme of "are stars" balanced by the later "cannot fathom".

Overall, it's a gud quote and I like it.

>> No.12456992

>>12454611
for us by us

us = niggers

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>>12453173
i am a while ugly suburban nerd but i can assure you that this is not true.

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>> No.12458153

>>12454611
he is talking about the clothing brand