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“I don't think my stuff's meant to be read out loud,” David Foster Wallace told an interviewer in 1997, a year after his novel Infinite Jest was published. Since written natural language, especially English, is inherently phonetic and based on speech, this proves just how bad DFWs writing actually is.

>> No.14219718

>english
>phonetic

>> No.14219787
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>>14219716
Something about how DFW writes really irritates me and I can’t quite put my finger on it. I don’t want to believe in a concept like “intellectually illegitimate” because I hate academia and gatekeeping, but at the same time IJ does read like it was written by some future AI. It’s paradoxical that DFW rebelled against hyper corporate commodification of culture when his book READS like it was designed in a board room by executives for how best to appeal to disaffected suburban men. Quite tragic since almost everyone who is introduced to IJ is essentially being set on the path to soulless literature. How many men who seek refuge from the hideous dehumanisation of post industrial society have been led astray by DFW when they could have simply read Hemingway, Salinger, Nabokov, or Joyce!

>> No.14221146

>>14219716
I want to be sucked off while these girls take turns rubbing their toes on my face

>> No.14221166

>>14219787
Isnt joyce post modern as well? Is it the post modern thats the problem or him in particular, what would you say about Pynchon?

>> No.14221395

>>14219716
1>3>2>9>5>8>6>7>4

>> No.14221406

>>14221166
Joyce is a modernist

>> No.14221531

>>14219716
I'd ravish them all save for 4, 7, 8, 9...

>> No.14221549

>>14221406
You need to kill yourself.

>> No.14221560

>>14221531
>Implying 7 and 9 wouldn't be the best nasty fuck

>> No.14221591

>>14219716
i can't decide which one i want to be

>> No.14221614

>>14219718
He means based in natural speech and prose. So he's admitting it's shit writing. Although this isn't true, written language can be considered a separate dialect(s).

>> No.14222227

>>14219787
Soulless? How much of it did you read? It's immensely moving. And I love Hemingway, Salinger, Nabokov, Joyce

>> No.14222231

>>14219718
imbecile

>> No.14222371

>>14219716
>David Foster Wallace
>DFWs writing
>my stuff

people think DFW was a """"writer""" .....of """stuff"""

he was a fucking garbage dispenser

>> No.14222438

>>14219787
>It’s paradoxical that DFW rebelled against hyper corporate commodification of culture when his book READS like it was designed in a board room by executives for how best to appeal to disaffected suburban men.
I feel like that's part of why DFW was so upset. Either you deal with the current state of affairs by being jaded and cynical and ironic (which hasn't been cutting edge in 40 years) or you try to display some type of humanity and come off like some trite, soulless ripoff of the ending lesson from any Full House or Seventh Heaven or whatever sentimental bullshit you've been conditioned to see through episode.

>> No.14222502

>>14221549
>joyce isnt a modernist

>> No.14223467

>>14219716
>>14221531
>>14221395
Don't understand the hate for 4
1>5>6>3>2>4>9>7>8 with 4 being the cutoff of my being enthusiastic and 7 for smashing at all. Sorry 8 :(

>> No.14223563

>>14221560
>nasty
9 is easily the most attractive

>> No.14223583

>>14223563
I thought of nasty as dirty and perverted. You're probably kinda right about 9's looks, I just believe that 7 and 9 would talk the dirtiest during sex and do things like begging you to lick their asshole.

>> No.14223662

>>14219716
>>14219787
I’m enjoying this pseud-zoomer Oedipal obsession with killing DFW.

>> No.14223696

>>14223662
was old enough to be my daddy for sure.
Without a doubt, though, he can be said to be the intellectual daddy of us all.
But who is our mommy? this board has a bigger electra complex, which is gay because that means you want to be girls

>> No.14223717

>>14219716
Who cares? His parents wrote all his books.

>> No.14223807

>>14219787
>>14221166
Nabokov is postmodern too.

>> No.14223813

>>14222502
>Finnegans Wake isn't postmodernism taken to the extreme before it even existed

>> No.14223877

> this proves just how bad DFWs writing actually is.
No it does not. It proves that you disagree with him on how it should be read.
Furthermore he said
>I don't *think*

There. I completely dismantled your non-critique.

And no, neither a fan nor an explicit hater of DFW. I read some of it and couldn't make up my mind.
Just wanted to mention that so anyone responding to me thinks I give a shit about anything except how retarded this clearly troll argument is.