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2245148

Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:30:43 2011 No.2245148 [Reply] [Original]

How long would it take me to gain a massive intellect like David Foster Wallace?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:32:40 2011 No.2245153 Just write precocious characters with a thesaurus in your lap. Oh, use useless footnotes. Appearing smart is 80% of being like DFW.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:32:40 2011 No.2245154 A thousand lifetimes of reincarnation, all filled with good karma.

>>	ϟ EDELKIND ϟ !Ry9.HRD23k Sat Dec 10 21:34:41 2011 No.2245163 File: 17 KB, 195x191, ReiRei.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >IMPLYING THAT "INTELLECT" CAN BE "ACQUIRED".

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:39:40 2011 No.2245173 >>2245153 >with a thesaurus in your lap only plebs think anyone 'fakes' sesquipedalianness by using thesauri, they just can't admit it to themselves that some people have talents they don't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:41:41 2011 No.2245179 >>2245173 Not really. It's incredibly apparent with DFW because the words do not flow. They clash, there's no fluidity. It's pretty obvious when one goes word-searching because they can't see the forest for the trees, and IJ is exactly like that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 21:52:42 2011 No.2245200 File: 73 KB, 360x267, 1319835615056.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22451797 sure buddy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 22:26:42 2011 No.2245280 >>2245179 I think he's just a bad writer with a large vocabulary

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 10 22:29:41 2011 No.2245285 >>2245280 Possibly, but, anyway, this isn't how DFW actually wrote; this thread is about how OP can have some semblance of being like DFW. For that, OP would have to have a thesaurus in OP's lap.