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>watch him speak on video
>feel deeply moved
>still can't get through Infinite Jest

Is there a word for this?

>> No.19546950

>>19546940
I think DFW off'ed himself because deep down he knew he wasn't a true writer.

>> No.19546978

>>19546950
Nah man, I think he discovered after deconstructed the late modernity is that the vanity which is root of most shallow escapism was still there even if the things he critiqued completely went away. At last he swallow the pessimism pill.

>> No.19547124

>>19546978
Do you think if he was born in Scandinavia or somewhere alike, away from NY jewish-yank acadmia who didn't ruin his life by hailing him as the new literarti giant and immersing him in a society of newyorkiness and plasticit, he would have been living today? I bet he would be a considerably minor author compared to now, but would you like it?

>> No.19547149

>>19547124
There is no DFW without hyper consoomerist soulless murica.

>> No.19547152

>>19546940
read his essays

>> No.19547156

I liked his essays, but found IJ interminably dull and dropped it after a few hundred pages.

>> No.19547175

Illiterate? I wouldn't bother with IJ though it wasn't worth the time investment for me

>> No.19547325

>>19546940
The words are “no discernible talent”

>> No.19547327

>>19547156
>essays
For some reason the “this is water” one just reminded me so much of the way Patton Oswalt talks and thinks that I wasn’t interested in anything else.

>> No.19547340

>>19546950
I think he was on some JewWario shit. Surprised nothing came out yet

>> No.19547394

>>19546940

Did he ever write about the relationship between mass media, entertainment, fame, and sexual debauchery? That's always the missing link, what compels the entertainment-media complex. In fact, he seems to have experienced it himself

>> No.19547507

>>19546940
IJ is kind of mid imo - it's not as entertaining as it should be, the satire falls limp at around 400 pages in, and there isn't enough sincerity to make it groudbreaking.
There are some really genius bits, though - and it's a really immersive book (that p.400-mark aside).
Pale King was better imo.
But nothing achieves his true potential like his speeches and essays, I think.

>> No.19547605

>>19546940
his essays are wonderful

>> No.19548987

>>19546940
I believe the term is pseud