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>He doesn't read footnotes
>He doesn't want the jesting to continue

>> No.5903699

hoping to reproduce the last thread's epic length?

>> No.5903705

>>5903699
a length of almost infinite porportion

>> No.5903786

>>5903698
>footnotes
Whose notes are they? If the translator keeps adding random trivial information, of course I'm not reading it.

>> No.5903789
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5903789

DAVID

>> No.5903792

>>5903789
FOSTER

>> No.5903798

>>5903792
WALLACE

>> No.5903802

DAVID

>> No.5903809

>>5903698
Why would anyone bother with a dead author whose work is no longer relevant?

>> No.5903812

>>5903809
>work is no longer relevant
>IJ isn't even 20 years old
>Pale King is 3 years old
you are not a very sharp jester

>> No.5903817

>>5903809
>implying all authors aren't dead

>> No.5903818

>>5903699
and a failed but promising meme

>> No.5903820

>>5903809
>implying anyone's work is relevant

>> No.5903821

>>5903809
All good authors are dead.
You can't prove me wrong.

>> No.5903829

>>5903821
All good authors are alive.
You can't prove me wrong.

>> No.5903832

DFW craze is 90s nostalgia. it'll pass.

>> No.5904061

>>5903698
Just let it go, man. We'll never have that thread back.

>> No.5904188

>>5904061
but it was the best thing that ever happened to /lit/

>> No.5904226

Did anyone save any of those pictures of dfw

>> No.5904252

>>5903832
hawhaw haw haw haw haw

I was listening to In our Time on BBC radio and some oxford shmoe says that IJ is the only book since Ulysess to try and make writing be alive
your'e a damn fool.


pale king is the best book of this millennium no doubt about it

>> No.5904282

>>5904252
I didn't finish it but loved Infinite Jest. Is it worth revisiting? I was thinking it might be a good idea, especially since I have quite a few accounting courses under my belt now.

>> No.5904293

I will Pemulis your penulus

>> No.5904298
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>>5904226
Maybe...

>> No.5904306

>>5904282
oh my god man pale king changed my life. he plays his style so close to the chest that its practically transcendant-whatever-amazing.

read it at a difficult time in my life; the places he went to try and maintain humanity was inspiring

read it man,
artistically its god-tier, but its about being human, and not in any bs kind of way. if youre bored by the purposeless rattling off of facts (it is purposeless, but it follows the aesthetical line absolutely through til it comes out the other side as something amazing) then skip to the 100ish page story at the end about the woman talking to the IRS man in the bar about her experience in a mental ward. that part alone makes the book worth reading

>> No.5904312

>>5904306
Read the first page of pale king at a bookstore the other day. That alone convinced me to buy it...

>> No.5904327

>>5904312
such a great book. what amazes me about infinite jest is how great it is despite being so imperfect as a book. it just does so many things.

but Pale King is near perfect as a book but also as a human statement. its really special

>> No.5904330

>>5904306
the Pale King is legitimately amazing, i'm reading it right now and I love it. It's seriously a fucking tragedy that he will never finish it.

>> No.5904340

>>5904330
I have not looked into how it became arranged and publised, but the ending of it is as fitting/perfect as it could have been for DFW... maybe not as much in the context of PK itself, but in infinite jest he talks about the woman you see before you die, which is his mother, with whom he makes a deal that he cant remember when he was born.. this to me has to be the woman at the end of PK, like his mother but also way more ethereal and shit.. .it was pretty fucking devastating with the interview in the dark office and the description of her is really one of the most incredible things ive evr read....

your thoughts on this? my friends who read it didnt seem to notice the connection

>> No.5904359

Yeah The Pale King is better than Infinite Jest, or at least it contains his best writing. The aforementioned Meredith Rand chapter, also Chris Fogle's tale of how he came to work in the IRS. Just an amazing novel through-and-through.

>> No.5904364

>>5904340
like i said i haven't finished it yet, but i'm close. I'll probably finish it while this thread is still up considering how long the last one lasted

>> No.5904375

>>5904364
whoop. sorry for ruining it for you. get back to me with your thoughts

>> No.5904537

>>5903698
more jest

>> No.5904596
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>>5903698

>> No.5904916

>>5904226
I posted a bunch in the last thread but I didn't save them. And then my laptop died today.

>> No.5904919

>>5904596
Nice meme!

>> No.5904922

>>5904596
>that autism keyboard

>> No.5904959

>>5904922

Listen, raids go all hours of the night, buddy. I don't want to miss my spells because I couldn't find the right key in my dank, dark chamber of NEET solitude.

>> No.5905342

Infinite Meme

b-b-b-b-b-ump this thread is never going to die

>> No.5905348
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5905348

ayyy lmao

>> No.5905368

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

420 DAVID FOSTER WALLAAACE

>> No.5905386

meme alert level: supa high

>> No.5905394

okay this is getting pretty boring now
i'm out boys

>> No.5905412

D-D-D-D-David Fourstar WullACE! say it with me boys

>> No.5905416

>>5905412
Davido Furastah Warrasu

>> No.5905428

>>5905412
DAVVVIDD ROCKSTAR WALLACE!

>> No.5905429

>>5903817
jej

>> No.5905437

david meme wallace is a meme

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5905442

its all just a big jest

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5905444

There was never anything else to it

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5905446

Once you are dead the only thing you can do is laugh

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>>5904922
I-It lights up...pretty neat, huh?

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>>5903698

>> No.5906256

>>5905368
I would not be surprised if this was the average /lit/izen. Jesus Christ this belongs in a fucking cringe thread.

>> No.5906847

>>5906256
That guy yelling is more alpha than anything you've ever done In your entire life

>> No.5906852

>>5906847

Alpha-worshipping beta orbiter detected.

You're as beta as the dude in the video

>> No.5906887

>>5906852
This is the most beta thing I've ever read and I've read IJ 15 times. SMH dude and let me know when you graduate from the 7th grade

>> No.5906981

>>5906847
>not being socially crippled and afraid to yell/talk to strangers is alpha

Jesus, are the standards really that low? Also, the only people who do that *are* socially crippled nerds on a stupid dare, because they're the only ones who actually think it's cool or funny.

>> No.5907371

>>5903698
This christmas is terrible and all i have is this thread

>> No.5907393

>>5907371
dfw will always love you

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5907407

>not calling them endnotes

>> No.5907588

DAVID FOSTER eBALLACE

>> No.5907660

>>5907393
THEN WHY DID HE KILL HIMSELF AND LEAVE ME

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>>5903698
Is Pale King worth reading?
Wasn't it published posthumously and they put together what "they think" would have been an ending?

>> No.5907673

>>5907670
yes, it's not complete but what is there is perhaps his best work

>> No.5907674

>>5907670
>they put together what "they think" would have been an ending
What, no. The main plot had nowhere near even had time to seriously get off the ground, there's no ending. And the only editing done was to make sure names were consistent and stuff.

>> No.5907926

>read footnotes of a translated book
>footnotes actually spoil important plotpoints

Why... Would... Someone... Do... This....

>> No.5907966

>>5907674
>the main plot had nowhere near even had time to seriously get off the ground

and this is why 90% of /lit/ has no idea what they're talking about in regards to literature.

>> No.5907978

>>5907926
The jest... it never ends!

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5907991

>>5906981
Why are you so beta, anon?

>> No.5909088

>>5907966
You have no idea what you're talking about. TPK was supposed to be about an intra-IRA conflict between those who wanted automation and those who wanted to keep doing things manually, and the automation group would try to steal the secrets of the guy who hovers when he concentrates. The book barely got to the first of those, and not at all to the second.

>> No.5910936

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

>> No.5910963

DAVID FOSTER WULLACE

>> No.5910966

>>5906852
You can be a douche and still be alpha, its alpha to not give a fuck

DAVID FUSTA WULLLUUUCE

>> No.5911403

inifnite wallace

>> No.5911618

>>5910966
>PUA bullshit in a David Foster Wallace thread

>> No.5911630

>>5911618
>being mad over PUAs
>referring to them as PUAs
Smells like tumblr