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>tfw you will never be 18 and athletic
>tfw you will never stand up to an admissions person
>tfw you will never be good at tennis

>tfw you will never lead a book club with your high school chums reading this together

the feels, though

>> No.5043677

>tfw you will never clip your toenails while calling O. and discussing Himself's suicide

hold me, /lit/

>> No.5043690

Are there worse fans than those of this book?

They're a particularly repulsive blend of self-indulgence, self-awareness, and suburban inferiority. Wish I could push a button and obliterate them all.

>> No.5043697

>>5043667
He didn't stand up to an admissions officer, he had a drugged out/possessed by demons/degenerating into a wraith/driven insane by the entertainment/mold-induced screaming episode.

>> No.5045162

>>5043690
Couldn't agree more.
Even Ellis shares the same opinion despite his not too great fiction.
Most overrated novel of all novels ever. Biggest waste of time

No discernible talent.

>> No.5045188

>>5043690
>>5045162
>Samefagging

>> No.5045751

>>5043667
Who cares. I went to the same college as DFW.

>> No.5045846

>Hal "standing up"
Wrong.
>Tennis (specifically the demanding nature of the academy) being the target of your envy
I didn't know it was possible to so thoroughly misread a book.

>> No.5045868
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5045868

>>5043667
/lit/, never been interested in IJ until

>>5043697
>wraith

Are you saying there are ghosts in IJ? How prominent?

>> No.5045892

>>5045868
>Are you saying there are ghosts in IJ?
DFW flat out says there are.

>How prominent?
Consider the title - Hamlet. The wraith sets into motion the action just like the dead king.

>> No.5045898

>>5045892
Ive never looked up anything concerning IJ, so I wouldnt know what DFW said about it.

Hm, thats pretty interesting. Is there only one just like Hamlet?

>> No.5045912

Native French speaker here, I've read The Portrait of the Artist in English as well as some Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, and I've been thinking for quite a while about reading Infinite Jest. Do you think I would be able to?

>> No.5045913

>>5045898
>so I wouldnt know what DFW said about it.
It's not like he clarified it in an interview after IJ's publication...there is literally a lengthy scene toward the end in which the wraith (actually the Mad Stork - more Hamlet) appears, says "I am a wrath," and talks wraith stuff.

>> No.5045914

>>5045751
you went to pretty shitty college, bro

>> No.5045950

>>5043667
Considering that's about a dollar per 110 pages that's a great deal.

>> No.5045976

>>5045912
Probably. It's written in a very easily readable ton, even if it has a lot of obscure words. I found that Infinite Jest Wiki page-by-page definitions of tricky words and a phone dictionary app made it basically hella easy to read.

>> No.5045980

>>5045912
It's easy to read. It's just long. But really, your opinion on postmodern, postpostmodern (New Sincerity), and metamodern literature is almost worthless if you haven't read Infinite Jest. So get to it.

>> No.5046199

>>5045914
Don't cry because they rejected you. I'm sure you had a very good time at your local state university.

>> No.5048193

>>5045868
how about a ghost explicitly described as a wraith floating around and above gately's hospital room and bed?

>> No.5048252

>>5046199
DFW went to a nice liberal arts college. It's a good school, no doubt, but what useful degree could you get there?

>> No.5048280

>>5048252
no degree is 'useful' until you have experience to back it up

>> No.5048284

>>5048280
The only experience that can back up a liberal arts degree is experience sucking dick and making coffee.

>> No.5048287

>>5048284
that's unrealistic. maybe you've just had bad luck and an incurable case of dick lust.

>> No.5048298

>>5045898
There's (at least) two.

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5048302

>Pic related will never be your gf
The chick, not the book.

>> No.5048320

>>5048302

How about the book? Will it be my girlfriend?

>> No.5048331

>>5048302
Why is that the picture? It should be something like the film or a ghost or a patch of mold or an exit sign.

>> No.5048363

>>5048331
or an electrified 3rd rail