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6056934 No.6056934 [Reply] [Original]

You have this face...sweaty face.

>> No.6056952
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And in the end he knew he wasn't an author, he was an infinite meme

>> No.6056957

he was merely pontificating

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>>6056957
There's a nice word.

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>>6056934

>> No.6056974
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How'd this fly get in here?

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>>6056974
Who knows?

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>>6056984
>>6056974
>>6056970
>>6056962
>>6056952
>>6056934

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>>6056990

>> No.6057000
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>>6056990

>> No.6057014

this thread made me look up the original
>he doesn't read footnotes
thread in the archive. what a great time. probably one of lit's greatest accomplishments

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>>6057014

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>>6057014
Ah, the footnotes thread.

DFW's sweaty forehead always reminds me to hang in there.

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>>6057024
I think I see what you did there.

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long live david foster meme :^)

>> No.6057043

are you getting paid for this DFW advertisement? or do you just waste your life for free?

>> No.6057044
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>such a dreamer

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>>6057044
>that one time he walked into German TV holding a cat

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>>6057043
for free.

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>>6057043
>upset because he skipped the footnotes

Like totally shameful

>> No.6057063

>hot dog foster wallace

>> No.6057090
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>>6057043
>The Faggot anon was in terrible and
unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility
of sharing or articulating this pain was itself
a component of the pain and a contributing
factor in its essential horror.

>Despairing, then, of describing the emotional
pain itself, the faggot anon hoped at least
to be able to express something of its context its shape and texture, as it were by shitposting in dank threads.

>> No.6057104
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>when you pick up some sweet audience pussy

>> No.6057109

that earlier thread about dfw fucking sloots, throwing a chair at a girlfriend, pushing another into traffic and buying a gun to kill a guy have had me contemplating his character all day

thought he really was a good guy

>> No.6057110
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>NO LONGER PUBLIC PROPERTY

>> No.6057125
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6057125

>He sleeps with his graduate students. He sleeps with his undergrads. He cruises recovery meetings for hookups, preying on the newly sober

>> No.6057138

>>6057125
>the newly sober
The newly sober? Why not the desperate?

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>> No.6057291

>>6057014
>people on /lit/ keep calling them footnotes
>they're actually fucking endnotes
pleb central

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>>6057109
all that stuff is bad, but it took place in a pretty short period of time when he was adjusting to 'sober' life or whatever iirc- not that excuses it or that there aren't other morally questionable things he did throughout his life (i forget the context of the pushing a girl in front of traffic-that's preeetty bad yikes)

>> No.6057352

>>6057295
He had such sexy hair.

>> No.6057380

>reminder that dfw fucked underage girls, beat up Mary Karr, made up everything in his "non-fiction" work and wanked himself to death in a garage
>reminder that the man you admired was a piece of shit

>> No.6057391

>>6057380
*A* underage girl. And you can't fault him for it. Most the people here would do the same given the chance

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>>6057352

also Karr was who he pushed in front of a car? going off the guardian review, i forgot that part of the bio

>> No.6057403

>>6057393
>tfw you learned Radcliffe is Jewish

>> No.6057404

>>6057380

>Implying those aren't features reminiscent of a Nietzchean Ubermensch

>> No.6057419
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Wallace tapped this

>> No.6057451

>>6057419
Damn

>> No.6057463

>>6057404

wat

>> No.6057469
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>>6057295

Wallace is to Franzen as Melville is to Hawthorne.

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>>6057469

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wat

>> No.6057514

>>6057391
Is this true? Is there a story behind this? Surely you're not jesting

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>>6057419
or not
(trying to find the underaged thing)

>> No.6057531

>>6057419
then he wrote about how narcissistic and self-involved she was in "The Depressed Person".

>> No.6057543
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That sweaty cunt better not have defiled Zadie

>> No.6057551

>>6057543
He most certainly did

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>>6057543
who's in front of her

>> No.6057560

>>6057555
something's wrong when franzen is the least unstylish dude in this pic
and he has on weird man sandles

>> No.6057571

>>6057514
It was in DT Max's (or w/e) DFW bio. He didn't give sauce but he said a friend said wallace confessed to sleeping with an underageb&. There's also an anecdote about a young-looking girl showing up to one of his book signings and wallace freaking out telling her 'I told you not to come'

>> No.6057579

>>6057543
He didn't. Zadie was too much of a class act.

>> No.6057581

>>6057555
>my feet hurt

>> No.6057803

>>6057380
>>6057125
>>6057109
pls sauce on this, there are far too many DFW threads to sort through

>> No.6057831

>>6057803
Read the fucking bio>>6057571

>> No.6057845
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>In October 2001, Wallace met with the families of 9/11 victims. After a brief interview in which he expressed his condolences and hope for closure, he reportedly burst out laughing and made airplane noises and mimicked two planes crashing. He then picked up the child of a deceased victim and whispered into her ear "Your dad's dead, bitch", and proceeded to put on a pair of sunglasses and unleash a barrage of martial arts attack on the small child. She was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead due to extreme trauma.[11] When asked later about the incident, Wallace became visibly sexually aroused and repeated the same attack on the reporter.

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>> No.6057853

Is he the John Green of the 90s?

>> No.6057855
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>>6057845

>> No.6057859

>>6057560
it was the 90s bro

>> No.6057881
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>On December 30, 1999, Wallace abducted a 19-year-old student named Robert Donnelly from a Chicago bus stop at gunpoint. Wallace drove Donnelly home with him, raped him, tortured him with various devices, and repeatedly dunked his head into a golden bathtub filled with chocolate until he passed out, then revived him. Donnelly later testified at Wallace's trial that he was in such pain that he asked Wallace to kill him to "get it over with", to which Wallace replied: "I'm getting round to it".[98] After several hours of assaulting and torturing the youth, Wallace drove Donnelly to his place of work, removed the handcuffs from the youth's wrists, and released him. Donnelly reported the assault and Wallace was questioned about it on January 6, 1999. Wallace admitted to having had "slave-sex" with Donnelly, but insisted everything was consensual. The police believed him and no charges were filed.

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Wallace came to prominence in the Yugoslav Wars, initially as a high-ranking officer of the Yugoslav People's Army and subsequently as the Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska in the Bosnian War of 1992–1995. In 1995, he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. As the top military general with command responsibility, Wallace was accused by the ICTY of being responsible for the Siege of Sarajevo (5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996) and the Srebrenica massacre[5]—the largest mass murder in Europe since the immediate aftermath of World War II. He has often been referred to by Western media as the "Butcher of Bosnia,"[6][7][8]

Can't believe I used to think he was a nice guy

>> No.6057909
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>In 2001, as part of Infinite Jest's 5 year anniversary celebration, David Foster Wallace arranged a weekend cruise for his colleagues on the Wallace family yacht.[1] On Saturday evening, approximately 4 hours after Wallace set sail, a small child lost her balance and fell overboard. According to Jonathan Franzen, the child was quickly dragged under the waves and had to struggle to stay above surface.[2] As the others on board rushed to help, Wallace held out an arm in front of them, hindering their attempts to save the child. A colleague of Wallace who wishes to remain anonymous has told us that Wallace then proclaimed "The waves have claimed her, we must let her fight for her own life". Mr. Wallace then proceeded to watch the girl struggle until her body disappeared beneath the waves, lifeless. He was later spotted outside the deceased's home, making drowning gestures and thanking the family for their child's sacrifice to the great ocean.[4]

>> No.6057941

>>6057909
>>6057881
>>6057845

That Max biography really changed my opinion of him. Can't believe none of this was out there before.

>> No.6057955

>>6057881
>>6057909
>>6056760
Is this /lit/'s epic new meme of the week?

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>In late 2003, after being approached by Scientology recruiters, David Foster Wallace is reported to have said, "Why join a cult when I can lead my own?!"[10] Allegedly he shoved the recruiters to the ground and ran away laughing maniacally. Five months later his assistant finally located him in a small African village near Lake Victoria, leading an apocalyptic death cult. The UN report on the aftermath remains classified[11] but rumors speak of mass graves, human sacrifice, and murals of Mr. Wallace's face made out of the bones of children.[12] Beneath the village it is said that the cult of Ogamboo Metukalu ("The Paradox") had 2,000 slave laborers digging a secret underground temple complex where the cult intended to live after the apocalypse struck. Mr. Wallace's assistant says the literary genius has since put that part of his life behind him and chalks it up to poor judgement brought on by a flu.[13] If that is the case though, why does Mr. Wallace continue to make routine trips to Africa to this day? And why are cases of missing children around Lake Victoria 20 times more common than that of any other area on the continent? Mr. Wallace could not be reached for comment and his assistant refused to speak with us regarding the matter.

>> No.6058072

>>6057138
>>6057138
for alcoholics thats when you're vulnerable

>> No.6058102

>>6057955
How new are you

Why have you not been autistically refreshing the lit home page since 2010

If you had, this would have been like the 4th time you'd have seen this post

>> No.6058109

Whats with all this stuff being surprising to you, autist fucks?

Tell me you haven had a nasty fight with any of your exes? Or that youve done questionable stuff in the past. Even illegal. Its like you thought because he was dorky, he had no life

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>>6057973
>>6057909
>>6057881
>>6057845
Bravo, anon.

>> No.6058523

>>6058072
>>6057138
right and you aren't supposed to date someone who's fresh in AA, it was a huge plot point in IJ

with that and all these dudes going sauce on davey being a dick on some occasions* ;_;...

please leave step up your dfw fanboyness, it's truly shameful

*to understate it

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DFW

1962 - 2008 (?)

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DFW
DWF
WDF
MDF
MDE

2008-(?)

Coincidence?

>> No.6058603

I think NOT!...

>yfw facebook is down

>> No.6058618

>tfw you were born 10 years too late to be audience road pussy

(or not given his underaged confession, if I had known who he was on the Consider the Lobster tour, I too could have had a weird prob terrifying experience)

>> No.6058624

>>6058618

L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

>> No.6058629

>>6058618
NORMAL
O
R
M
A
L

>> No.6058641

>>6058618
Part two of my ununderstanding. Why do book groupies exist. Admiring one's literary talent doesn't seem like it would naturally lead to wanting to have sex with them. Do these people think they will be rewarded for fucking someone "important"? Or do they think it is the way to start a meaningful relationship with someone they admire? I feel you would have to be pretty naive to believe either

>> No.6058651

>>6058641
Allow me to add, too naive and frankly stupid to even read Infinite Jest or see David Foster Wallace as someone of importance in the first place. I am not confused at the existence of rock groupies, everyone is drugged up, fans are not very smart and mainstream musicians are generally pretty attractive but this is something else

Also, what are some tips to get my own literary groupies? I'm jealous

>> No.6058657

>>6058641
zero self esteem
>>6058651
you could probably get the same chicks by searching for bbws on pof

>> No.6058670

>>6058641
I would never even want to go to a book signing or ever want to meet an author I liked

sorry to be unable to provide a personal insight into the groupie mind, try being a cutie idk

>> No.6058697

>>6057845
>brief interview
I know that's part of the original copypasta but that's fucking hilarious here

>> No.6059088

>>6057052
>David F. Wallace
>Window Jester

>> No.6059134

Sometimes I'll watch a DFW interview and he'll make this weird grimace after saying something, like "Oh there I go again, I really have to kill myself now."

>> No.6059881

>dfw you will never bang literary groupies because of your perceived artistic merit

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>>6059134
Like this?

>> No.6060027

>>6060016
I think he means when Wallace shows his teeth and squints and asks if he phrased something clearly enough

>> No.6060041

>>6059134
>>6060027

yeah, I feel like he was just really over analysing the situation

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>>6060027
>>6060041

>> No.6061080

>>6056934
Thread is now on suicide watch.

>> No.6061093

>>6061080
We can't just leave it hanging here forever

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>> No.6062256

>>6061244
;_; qt pi

>> No.6062267

This guy wrote and gave speeches. Doesn't that bother anyone else?

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>>6062256

>> No.6062387

>>6056934
>>6057024
>>6057543
He is perspiring you plebs, do you even dfw?

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>>6062384

>> No.6062405

>>6062267
yeah, even the overall message of IJ seems a little too preachy for me. Still doesn't bother me enough that I don't like his work though.

>> No.6062569

>>6062405
tbh most literature is pretty preachy

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>> No.6063164

>>6063118
i'm the guy who didn't bring his copy

>> No.6063690

>>6057024
>>6057014
link?

>> No.6063695

>>6063164
>not reciting it from memory like a true autist would

>> No.6064214

>>6063118
middle gril is qt

>> No.6064419

>>6057555
>K-mart sneakers

>> No.6064456

>>6064419

>Implying those are god-tier tennis shoes

>> No.6064580

>>6059881
I think you mean autistic merit

>> No.6064700
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>"Smell that Core" Wallace said to his friend one day in April as they walked on the green in front of the Valentine dinning hall. "It's springtime, the smell of cunt in the air"

>> No.6064707

>>6064580
>>>/facebook/

>> No.6064789

>>6057285
every time

>> No.6064800

>>6064707
is autism a facebook meme now?

>> No.6064805

>>6058651
>tfw Rock groupies don't exist anymore

>> No.6064811

>>6064800
facebook is a 4chan meme now, apparently

>> No.6064945

>>6064811
ah right, I was just wondering, because I only use the freshest, most dank memes that haven't yet been tainted by facebook/reddit

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Jonathan Franzen is my favorite meme

>> No.6068906

>>6067090
>average dfw fan

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>>6068906
More like this.

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>>6070361

>> No.6071918

>>6057555
autism: the photo

jesus christ

>> No.6071932

>>6065571

what....what....what if this is actually ends up being good?

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>>6071932
I'm going to hang myself on DFW's porch

>> No.6071987

>>6057555

kind of looks like dave eggers?

>> No.6072135

>>6057859
it was 2006
4 the record

>> No.6072137

>>6057555
every time i look at this pic i notice a new awful thing about the men's outfits

>> No.6072145

>>6072137
and i didn't even notice that the one guy's shirt says yoga! jesus

>> No.6072728

>>6072135
Almost 10 years ago...shit.

>> No.6073784

Is sweating an intrinsic quality of a good writer?

>> No.6073795

>>6057555
Hahahah fucking Zadie Smith's face when she realizes how horrid these people are dressed.

>> No.6075465

>>6064214
left girl is better i rate 7/10

>> No.6075473

>>6071932
Early word says it's great. Lots of praise for Jason Seagull.

>> No.6075486

>>6075473
>paying attention to cricits
pls

>> No.6075500

>>6063690
I too am interested

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>>6065571
shoulda just cast cusack

>> No.6075844

>>6075553
Yeah. Jason is way too tall and big to play DFW.

>> No.6076091

>>6075844
how tall was dfw?

>> No.6076095

>>6076091
>>6075844
He's often described as 'tall'

>> No.6076100

>>6076091
like 6'2"

>> No.6076105

>>6076091

>Max never figured out how tall Wallace was because everyone close to Wallace gave a different height

>> No.6076212

>>6057531
That's exactly how she comes off.

She also has no talent.

>> No.6077102

>>6076091
6'

>> No.6077105

>>6076095
He wasn't 6'4, nor did he have a thick body like Jason.

>> No.6077142

>>6077105
Dfw was not a small man

>> No.6078327

>>6077142
Granted, but not as big as Jason.