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will David Foster Wallace become a literary giant in years to come?

>> No.4808137

>>4808115
DFW is our NMH

>> No.4808142
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>>4808137
True enough.

>> No.4808146

I would not be surprised

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>>4808115
Probably. A couple of my AP lit teachers in high school thought so, and my American Lit teacher at uni thinks he probably will as well. But then I know another teacher who finds his writing style to be "gimmicky." So I don't know, but I'm thinking yes.

>>4808137
>>4808142
Well if that's true, then DFW is 10/10

>> No.4808154

no. he just wants it really badly.

>> No.4808162

>>4808115
He'll be a minor writer. Ruggles is going to be a giant.

>> No.4808165

No, his bandanas will ruin him.

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>>4808151
>Well if that's true, then DFW is
For you

>> No.4808172

>>4808162
who

>> No.4808173

>>4808165
What are you talking about? His bananas just scream out: "RESPECT!"

>> No.4808180

he was good, original and ambitious

but he is nowhere near talented enough to be compared to other literary giants

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>>4808173
He's a qt without it

>> No.4808336

i farted in his mouth once at a gay club

>> No.4808368

>>4808336
>3:33
>last three numbers are divisible by three

Might be legit

>> No.4808489
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>>4808115
Short term (being decades from now) yes. Your child will be taught DFW in his English class. Your grandchild will be taught DFW in his English class.

Long term? No.
>>4808172
You know who. Pinecone.

>> No.4808513

>>4808172

tommy ruggles p

>> No.4808617

>>4808151
>But then I know another teacher who finds his writing style to be "gimmicky."
That's true for any writer ever though.

>> No.4808751

>>4808489
>Your grandchild will be taught DFW in his English class.
Have you seen English class curricula and the ridiculous shit they study there lately? That something is taught in English class means jackshit.

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"And a champion went out from the camp of the Hipsters, named David, from Illinois, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a white bandana on his head, and he was armed with a book written with no discernible talent, and the weight of the book was five thousand shekels of hype and over-rated complexity. And he had gay tennis shorts on his legs and a tennis racket between his shoulders, to make less conspicuous his sweat." (1 Samuel 17:4–7).

>> No.4808911

>>4808800
TOP LEL

>> No.4808917

>>4808170
Woah

>> No.4808919

>>4808800
>And he had gay tennis shorts on his legs
lost it.

>> No.4808960

>>4808115
why does he describe in great detail all of the drugs in IJ??????????????? wat the fuck

>> No.4808985

What's a good book to start with from his collected works?

>> No.4809040

>>4808960

Not only that, but he gets most of the stuff wrong. After the first part about heroin, I had to put the book down. Why write about such drugs and lifestyles when you clearly have no idea what they're really like? It feels like a phoning in of cliches to lazily setup an atmosphere

>> No.4809206

>>4809040
He was actually quite a stoner in high school, or so his sister says:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLEdNmbvsA

Around the 11:28 mark.

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>dfw you revere a outcast who got addicted to anti-depressants which ironically led to his suicide

>> No.4809227

>>4809206
so fucking what? no amount of weed you smoke will somehow make you knowledgeable about other drugs. Also, I read an angry article about DFW a few years back which had the drug topic as one of its foci. Apparently DFW uses info from books on drugs that were outdated in the 80s already, or something like that.

>> No.4809241

>>4809227
W-well, it's just that you said he "clearly had no idea what they're really like", and I just thought to correct you since that's not entirely true.

I'm very sorry to have upset you. I'm sure he was a terrible and horribly misinformed individual.

>> No.4809267

>>4809206

I thought he hit the pot stuff on the head, actually. It just confuses me why someone would attempt to write about something like heroin addiction without doing much research. Without any real reference all you have to go by is pop-culture depictions. That first section in ebonics feels like a quilt of after school special tier facts.

>> No.4809321

>>4809206
imagine how painful could be for him listening this interview after his suicide.

>> No.4809338

I'm sorry but the powers that be require a black woman of lesbian birth to be served at the altar of literary gods in the coming decades. No white man will suffice as offering.

>> No.4810825

>>4809040
>Why write about such drugs and lifestyles when you clearly have no idea what they're really like?
because IJ is just a neo-Puritanical antidrug diatribe

>>4809267
He was too uncomfortable with the majority of America to leave his cushy little WASP life and really experience anything.

>> No.4811415

>>4809040
>Tolkien wasn't a goblin elf so can't write about them
>Hamlet wasn't danish royalty so can't write about them
Surely you can see past the drug details. Its not non-fiction on the effects of narcotics. There are countless other levels to appreciate it on

>> No.4811427

>>4809216
anti-depressants make you more likely to an-hero. it's a fact.

>> No.4811462

>>4809321
Extremely. For him.

>> No.4812317

>>4811415
See I always thought a limb of it was non-fiction. I honestly learned a bit of the drug-culture underbelly , however "real" it might be, plus there's the encyclopedic element of the endnotes (no idea what the /lit/ consensus on these is) and some of the sprawling descriptions of say tennis and rehab itself. It kind of reminds me of the album Endtroducing in its searching for raw information to bring into it, and how it actually wields its findings. I don't know, just a thought, I appreciate it nonetheless.

Also Hamlet wasn't a person. Gotcha bitch.

>> No.4812326

>>4809206
>all those Bloom interviews as suggestions

>> No.4812503

>>4812317
Yeah you got me there anon. Gawdamm danes :^) I would certainly agree that there is definitely a non-fiction kind of element to it and the encyclopedic quality of the end-notes definitely does attest to that. But I'm not going to hold it against him that he didn't start doing hard drugs as research for the book and definitely don't see it as essential to my enjoyment of the book that all of the drug-related details are spot-on

>> No.4812646

>>4808800
1 cubit = 18 inches
1 span = 9 inches
= 117 inches
= 9 foot 9 inches tall
okay

>> No.4812657

>>4812646
well there we have it. heebs doing what they're best at. liars, the lot of them.

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What do you guys think of the upcoming movie