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Was his entire life story just a failed and forced attempt to relate to normies?

>> No.18629070
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>>18628567
he was both normie and divergent

>> No.18629080

>>18628567
Not even remotely. Have you even read him?

>> No.18629162

>>18629080
have you seen his syllabi? dude had some bizarre conception that lowbrow literature was good because it wasn't pretentious

>> No.18629212

>>18629162
if you can't into DFW don't start threads on him

>> No.18629226

>>18628567
>Was his entire life story just a failed and forced attempt to relate to normies?
No. Because normies don't read footnotes.

>> No.18629229

>>18629162
He wasn't teaching literature he was teaching writing. So teaching Silence of the Lambs makes more sense than teaching Perec.

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>>18629162
If you had bother to learn anything about him you would know he actually got along with normies much better than elites for the most part.

>>18629229
It was actually a class on literary analysis, so it makes even more sense.