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What's your favorite DFW essay and why?

>> No.13976775

I dislike all of them. Good times create weak men.

>> No.13977067

>>13976770
Authority and American Usage
BTFOs all /lit/ "language" thread and everyone should read it

>> No.13977110

>>13976770
The 2016 presidential election

>> No.13977116

>>13976775
>Good times create weak men
The equivalent of a Marilyn Monroe quote for boys

>> No.13977128

>>13976770
I just red David foster Wallace’s “this is water essay” in my AP English Class. I think that it was a really moving essay and shows the power of positive thinking. I am probably going to write my college application essay about it.

>> No.13977146

>>13977128
Good bait, bit on the nose tho

>> No.13977153

>>13976770
Ticket to the Fair and Shipping Out are by far his best non-fiction pieces.

>> No.13977188

can you read DFW if you're not american? or is his work only relevant for americans?

>> No.13977205

>>13977188
He always defines the topic with U.S.-, but who am I to decide?

>> No.13977228

>>13977188
I mean, can you read Tolstoy or Joyce? If you like them you'll probably enjoy DFW.

>> No.13977319

>>13977116
good snark tweet

>> No.13977321

>>13976770
Supposedly Fun Thing. The long (long) setup of the juvenile toilet/wife joke makes me laugh harder than anything else I've ever read.

>> No.13977336

>>13977146
I was on my phone, mistyped read and decided to go with it. I recently talked to an undergrad who talked like this, and he was so fucking annoying. Kept on bringing up his model UN projects and how he was excited for “the college experience”.

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13977339

http://exiledonline.com/david-foster-wallace-portrait-of-an-infinitely-limited-mind/

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13977347

>>13977153
I recently read derivative sport in tornado alley and enjoyed it. Ticket to the fair was really good also. What did you enjoy specifically?

>> No.13977354

>>13976775
Yikes

>> No.13977711

Quack this way has some interesting points on good writing and audience that most writers could find useful

>> No.13977763

>>13977347
Those two are clearly DFW in his prime writing wise, and highlight the mastery of the style he developed.

>> No.13977806

>>13976770
the one where he goes to a porn convention

>> No.13977825

>>13977067
Is that the Tense, Present essay?

>> No.13977860

>>13977806
That one is mediocre, as is the McCain one.

>> No.13977987

>>13977711
>Quack this way
Did the audio of it ever get released?

>> No.13977994

God I miss him so much bros

>> No.13978922

>>13976775

Fuck off you fucking boomer

>> No.13978956

>>13976775
Cringe bro

>> No.13979071

>>13977860
not him, but I liked it - I listened to his reading of it, and it's one of the few recordings where he doesn't sound like he's about to kill himself right there in the recording booth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=papiCP6GSt0
he sounds like he's enjoying himself

>> No.13979248

>>13977116
That's such a good way of putting it, well done anon

>> No.13979528

>>13977116
>only boys value the feeling of accountability

>> No.13979592

>>13979528
I'm actually feeling second hand embarrassment over you missing the point this hard

>> No.13979616

>>13977067
Thanks fren, reading it right now

>> No.13980194

>>13979616
No I thank you. I hope people on /lit/ took more and better effort on discussing niggerish after read the essay.

>> No.13981531

>>13976770
Bump

>> No.13981626

>>13977128
The text wasn't mind blowing, but I genuinely thought it was pretty moving speech.

>> No.13981643

>>13977336
oh, lit, you're so cynical you

>> No.13981695

>>13981626
It's not very moving after you read his pre-published-by-pseudoname-short-story Mr.Squishy

>> No.13982334

>>13976775
faggot

>> No.13982340

Why did he wear a head bandana?

>> No.13982351

>>13982340
Just representing. You fly your colors if you live in the hood.

>> No.13983452

>>13981695
Just read it a little bit ago, I don’t understand what do you mean?

>> No.13983458

>>13983452
He recycled his prose

>> No.13983460

>>13976770
What's up D.E.

>> No.13983474

>>13976775
have sex

>> No.13983481

>>13983458
And? It was a speech, anyways. He’s reused a lot of ideas across his works, like maybe he was trying to drive home a point he thought was fundamental to understanding him?

>> No.13984488

>>13983458
the water bit was in IJ when Gately was questioning the presence of a higher power in AA, the biker tells him the story
and he was writing that since 1986