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Do you think his suicide note had footnotes? Maybe it started with 'And but so'.

>> No.6073381

I don't know but I really wish it had leaked. I have a morbid fascination with suicide notes.

>> No.6073388

>>6073381
If it makes you feel any better, DFW - a hanging corpse after all - definitely leaked.

>> No.6073398

Virginia Wolfs suicide note was p dope.:


Dearest,

I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.

>> No.6073408

Suicide is pretty cool. It's a shame it is so retarded.

>> No.6073413

>>6073398
Damn...and she off'd herself in a torturous way.

>> No.6073506

You know, I was interested in reading Infinite Jest at first, but every time I see a picture of DFW's stupid fucking bandana, I lose even more interest.

Why the fuck's he wear it? With a suit? All fucked-up looking instead of worn properly? It looks like shit.

>> No.6073512

>>6073506
kek hes edgy m8

>> No.6073524

>>6073512
So that's why.

>> No.6073529

>>6073512
>>6073524
He wore it because he sweat a lot and he was embarrassed about it.

>> No.6073535

>>6073506
It's a bandage for his brain from what I've heard. (not literally)

>> No.6073541

>>6073529
If I were him, I'd be more embarrassed about the books I wrote than a few beads of sweat.

>> No.6073566

>>6073541
Why do you think he killed himself"

>> No.6073569

>>6073506
>Why the fuck's he wear it?
He had a disorder to do with his sweat glands. If he didn't wear it, there would be a torrent of sweat pouring down his face.

>> No.6073570

>>6073566
Well, I'm sure I don't know. They say it's because he knew he hadn't any talent. But, I'm sure I don't know.

>> No.6073571

>>6073566
Because he saw water and drown.

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>>6073566

>> No.6073584

>>6073569
Huh, you learn something everyday. Thanks.
I feel prepared to read DFW now.

>> No.6073605

>>6073566
Harold Bloom strangled him and framed it as a suicide. That fat fuck.

>> No.6073644

>>6073529
Source

>> No.6073655

>>6073398


Uh bitch, I'm not your manic pixie dream girl. Its not my JOB to save you...

the matriarchy makes me sick to my stomach.

a wub wub wub bah bah bah ;__;

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>>6073644
Perspiration intensifies

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>>6073676
>Internet Explorer

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>>6073731
eyyyy

>> No.6073761

>>6073388
Respectable post

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>>6073731
>gif

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>>6073506
Maybe he was balding and wad insecure about it.

>> No.6073803

>>6073731
>windows phone

>> No.6073812

>>6073782
Isn't there a (possibly fake) autopsy report of DFW that states he was balding? I remember an anon posting it in 4 JPGs or something

>> No.6073814

>>6073506

TELL ME ABOUT DFW

WHY DOES HE WEAR THE BANDANA

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>>6073782
The faces he makes.

>> No.6073862

>Wallace in his final hours had "tidied up [his] manuscript so that his wife could find it. Below it, around it, inside his two computers, on old floppy disks in his drawers were hundreds of other pages—drafts, character sketches, notes to himself, fragments that had evaded his attempt to integrate them into the novel."[3]

I think it was kinda shameless for him to arrange for his last work to be published posthumously.

>this important work must be carried forth to publication
>and you're gonna do it! coz imma go now b/c i'm sad today.

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>>6073814
No one cared who I was until I wrote Infinite Jest

>> No.6073922

>>6073867
>no one cared who I was until I put on the noose

>> No.6073929

So was it auto-erotic asphyxiation /lit/?

>> No.6073935

>>6073867
That's a big book

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>>6073922

>> No.6073951

>>6073369
i lol'd

>> No.6073993

After Amherst, Wallace went to the University of Arizona. It was where he picked up the bandanna. "I started wearing them in Tuscon because it was a hundred degrees all the time, and I would perspire so much I would drip on the page. [...] Then I began thinking about the phrase 'keeping your head together.' It makes me feel kind of creepy that people view it as a trademark or something- it's more a recognition of a weakness, which is that I'm just kind of worried that my head's gonna explode."

source: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-David-Foster-Wallace-wear-a-bandana

>> No.6074014

>>6073935
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>> No.6074119

>>6073569
perspiration anon, perspiration

>> No.6074291

>>6073862
You are such a fucking mellon. If you knew that people were inspired by your work, connected with it, and understood themselves better because of it wouldn't you do the same? I just think it's courteous. He would be depriving at least some people something they could learn from and relate to- killing himself before getting his papers in order would have been selfish.

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>>6074014

>> No.6075750

>>6073369
That isn't the true ruler of footnotes

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>>6075750
forgot pic

>> No.6075797

>>6073369

As much as we shitpost about DFW, I've read about a third of Infinite Jest so far and I've got to say it's the best thing I've read...in a while? or ever? It's fucking brilliant.

It rather perfectly balances 'high-brow' and 'low-brow' elements, creating a novel that is both informing and touching and yet entertaining even on a simple level.

>> No.6075814

>>6073398
damn . . .