David Foster Wallace

[Anonymous No.20542325]

Goddammit. He was taken before his time. His work has more salience now than it ever did back then.

[Anonymous No.20542334]

>>20542325
>taken before his time
It was literally his decision to hang himself.

[Anonymous No.20542354]

>>20542325
you gonna cry about it?

[Anonymous No.20542631]

>>20542354
Yes. Because today's authors are dogshit

[Anonymous No.20542657]

>>20542631
Mcarthy, Delillo, Pycnchon, Houellbecq, Rooney, Murakami

[Anonymous No.20544075]

I enjoyed Infinite Jest. Cool 6 months.

[Anonymous No.20544267]

>>20542657
Did you just say that Rooney is a good writer ? Normal people was the only book that didnt seem like a waste of time and the series is much better.

[Anonymous No.20544618]

Do you guys think he's autistic?
>Only wore 100% cotton shirts
>His sister described him as "Someone that just came out of a space capsule" in terms of how he handled social norms.
>The stuttering in interviews
>The way he often asks "Did that make sense? I'm not sure if that made sense."
>The maximalist prose
>The way he was so big on being alone and in solitude for many years
>His struggles with mental illness

[Anonymous No.20544635]

>>20542657
>Pycnchon
>Rooney
>Murakami

[Anonymous No.20544647]

>>20542325
I already know how stupid and autistic this sounds, but I legitimately don't think that there is another person who has/will inspire creatively, spiritually, mentally, and philosophically as much as David Foster Wallace has. I genuinely weep that this genius was taken from us so soon. RIP king.

[Anonymous No.20544723]

>>20544647
Bo Burnham is up there, unsurprisingly because he’s influenced by DFW.

[Anonymous No.20544765]

>>20542325
>taken before his time
It was literally his decision to hang himself.

[Anonymous No.20544768]

>>20542657
Bunch of has-beens. Even when DFW killed himself they were already has-beens.

[Anonymous No.20544793]

>>20542325
midwit pseud

[Anonymous No.20544797]

>>20544768
DFW never was

[Anonymous No.20544802]

>>20544618
still more tail than me

[Anonymous No.20544823]

>>20544267
Fell for the bait

[Anonymous No.20545364]

Bump

[Anonymous No.20546380]

>>20544618
>Only wore 100% cotton shirts
Probably because of the sweating, cotton dries fast and does not absorb odor like synthetics.
>His sister described him as "Someone that just came out of a space capsule" in terms of how he handled social norms.
His whole point is that "the social norms" distance you from people because those norms force you to say everything but what you mean.
>The stuttering in interviews
That is mostly the one unedited interview, most unedited interviews are like that. The other times it is because he is trying to simplify his answer in a way that does not depend on having certain knowledge, avoiding the intertextual.
>The way he often asks "Did that make sense? I'm not sure if that made sense."
An extension of the above, an interviewer knows their audience better than he does, he wants them to ask for any elaborations which the audience may need instead of leaving it as is. With the better interviewers that already know to do this he is much more comfortable and does this less.
>The maximalist prose
He only used that when needed and was perfectly capable of completely abandoning it when required.
>The way he was so big on being alone and in solitude for many years
Playing the game and communicating within social norms can leave you feeling even more alone than actually being alone. He maintained a select group of people who he remained in contact with, those ones he did not have to play games with.
>His struggles with mental illness
He only really struggled at the beginning and end of his career, for the bulk his struggle was more with the side effects of his medication than the illness itself.

[Anonymous No.20546478]

>>20546380
what a party-pooper. guess we aren't allowed to have fun with our wackjob conjectures on an author's mental disability.

[Anonymous No.20546481]

>>20542657
>houellbecq
>rooney
>murakami
just go back

[Anonymous No.20546516]

>>20546478
You can conjecture all you want but it is moronic to expect faulty conjectures aired in a public forum to go uncorrected, especially when you pose the conjecture as a question.

[Anonymous No.20546976]

>>20546516
I don't know man. A lot of people are good at hiding their autism.

[Anonymous No.20546997]

>>20546481
stop being such a predictable gullible faggot

[Anonymous No.20547074]

>Withdrawal of MAOIs can result in severe anxiety, agitation, pressured speech, sleeplessness or drowsiness, hallucinations, delirium, and paranoid psychosis. 5. MAOI withdrawal phenomena resemble the symptoms produced by the discontinuation of chronically administered psychostimulants.

Several weeks before his death his psychiatrist discontinued his MAOI and switched him to an SSRi. DFW had been on selegine for depression since his early 20s.

I'm not saying he offered himself because of the meds, but it definitely was a contributing factor. The dude is depressed and suicidal his whole life and he only actually finishes himself off a few weeks after being taken off a depression med he'd taken for decades.

People rarely do anything for a single reason, suicide included but you'd have to be stupid to act like his MAOI discontinuation didnt at least somewhat contributed to him transitioning from ideality to suicide.

[Anonymous No.20547230]

>>20547074
>I know more than his doctor
You assume his psychiatrist cut him off cold turkey and he had been on them long enough for withdrawal to be a concern. During that last year of life he was regularly having his medication switched, he had gotten off Nardil to try some of the new drugs since its side effects had been getting to him, he tried a bunch, they did not work; went back to the Nardil and that no longer worked which is a quirk of Nardil, once you get off it it often never works again. and then went back to trying other treatments. The reason he was on Nardil in the first place was to deal with a severe depressive disorder which including suicide issues, that final drug switch was at most a tiny drop in the bucket.

Why did you even make that post?

[Anonymous No.20548371]

>>20542325
>taken before his time
It was literally his decision to hang himself.

[Anonymous No.20548534]

>>20544618
Schizophrenic. Adult autism doesn't exist, it's always some sort of untrigered psychosis