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Anonymous Sat Apr 18 04:37:38 2015 No.6418931 [Reply] [Original]

Was this good fashion sense for the 90s?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 04:38:24 2015 No.6418933 >>6418931 >8931 [Reply]▶ >Was this good fashion sense for the 90s? in the 90's everyone looked like shit and it was fine

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 04:39:19 2015 No.6418934 >>6418931 protip: he was autistic

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 05:24:23 2015 No.6419025 >>6418931 He wore it 'cause he sweat so much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 09:57:40 2015 No.6419615 TELL ME ABOUT DAVE WHY DOES HE WEAR THE BANDANA?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 09:58:33 2015 No.6419618 How much pussy do you think that bandanna got him back in the day?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:20:48 2015 No.6419689 >>6419618 Not enough to stave off suicide.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:48:31 2015 No.6419765 >>6419615 Hal Incandenza: "You're a big guy." Don Gately: "For you."

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:55:28 2015 No.6419785 File: 170 KB, 750x563, 201312518530.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /fa/ here, DFW has the absolute worst fashion sense out of any of the authors you post. Im talking about this kind of stuff in particular, he dresses like an old man

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:57:07 2015 No.6419790 >>6419785 from what I've seen on /fa/ I'd rather go full DFW any day

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:57:32 2015 No.6419792 >>6418931 Nope! His bandana was as sincere as just about everything else with him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:58:37 2015 No.6419796 >>6419785 >>6419785 I feel like Zadie Smith really does not want to be there

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:59:02 2015 No.6419797 >>6419790 the main thing /fa/ cares about is a good fit/ good silhouette, how can you be against that?

Anonymous Sat Apr 18 10:59:35 2015 No.6419798
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>>6419792
P.S.

>You have to give David Foster Wallace some credit – he was better at making his fans bash themselves than any other writer of the Pynchon school. His magnum opus, Infinite Jest, is a 1000-page novel full of intestinally-shaped sentences and fine-print notes on calculus, organic chemistry and VCR programming. Normally, when a book like that comes out, people realise its purpose right away: terrorising B.A. students into meek submission. Wallace, however, found a very shrewd way to counter this by pretending that his work was really “a late-night conversation with really good friends, when the bullshit stops and the masks come off.” So instead of menacing the reader in the old Joycean way, Wallace chums it up whenever the technical stuff appears, acting like he really doesn’t mean to discourage anyone. Swapping lecture theatre dread for tutorial group paternalism – that’s the aesthetic in a nutshell. (And even if he IS being dense on purpose, it’s all for our own good of course.)

Face it, Gene Wolfe's novels are quite dense. But at least they don't have these fucking notations.

Also Umberto Eco's multi-layered novels.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:00:29 2015 No.6419801 >>6419797 I'd rather be comfortable with an individual style, but then again I'm not metrosexual, so I wouldn't know how yall think

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:01:58 2015 No.6419802 >>6419785 Zadie Smith's face lmao

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:02:15 2015 No.6419805 >>6419798 >dropping Gene Wolfe again in an unrelated thread the phallus worshipping nerds are getting out of hand

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:02:33 2015 No.6419806 >>6419785 >my feet hurt

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:03:44 2015 No.6419807 did he have a big wang did he try it on with zadie

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:04:14 2015 No.6419808 >>6419801 >metrosexual Wow I don't think I've heard anyone use that word since 2005

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:05:19 2015 No.6419813 >>6419807 Yes and they swapped head rags when they were doing it

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:08:14 2015 No.6419816 >>6419813 Lewd

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:10:09 2015 No.6419824 File: 14 KB, 218x231, the one rule.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6419805 >implying that /lit/ isn't for nerds

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:15:19 2015 No.6419831 would zadie smith be the person she is today if she didnt have a white father?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:18:00 2015 No.6419839 >>6419831 Would you be the person you are today if your mother hadn't cheated on your father with a black man?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:19:07 2015 No.6419841 >>6419831 Shes British. most black people there are culturally the same as whites more or less.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:22:57 2015 No.6419849 >>6419801 >metrosexual >yall go home

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:24:14 2015 No.6419853 >>6419839 no

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 11:25:15 2015 No.6419855 >>6419841 culturally yes, but intellectually?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 13:09:57 2015 No.6420202 File: 30 KB, 460x306, the best crap democracy can buy for other people's money.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6419855 >implying british whites are intellectuals

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 13:11:27 2015 No.6420208 File: 319 KB, 534x388, DFW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6418934 >

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 13:13:04 2015 No.6420213 File: 107 KB, 867x908, Nigel Pepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6419841 >most black people there are culturally the same as whites more or less.

Anonymous Sat Apr 18 14:55:45 2015 No.6420601
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>>6419618
>He goes home with Elizabeth Wurtzel only to turn “furious” with her when she changes her mind about sex. He takes full advantage of the “audience pussy” that becomes available to him after the publication of Infinite Jest; telling Jonathan Franzen he wonders whether his only purpose is “to put [his] penis in as many vaginas as possible.” He dismisses one woman he’s slept with by telling her, “I told you not to come here,” as she approaches him after a reading, and refers to another one (“unchivalrously,” Max notes) as “A three-day weekend I’m still paying the credit card bill on.” In New Orleans, he sleeps with a fan who is “underage,” though whether this means someone who is under 21, or under 18, or under 17 (the age of consent in Louisiana) is unclear. He tells one single mother he’s dating that he is jealous “her breasts [are] ‘no longer public property.’” He sleeps with his graduate students. He sleeps with his undergrads. He cruises recovery meetings for hookups, preying on the newly sober despite the fact that no one has ever written so eloquently about the damage such encounters can do.

Anonymous Sat Apr 18 14:56:15 2015 No.6420604

>>6419792
P.P.S

>Wallace always seemed like such a warm, down-to-earth person. No, not arrogant at all. He had long hair. He wore T-shirts, for Christ’s sake! Better to think he was struggling to communicate something, something deeply felt, about the limits of language. How he really wanted to connect with other people but couldn’t.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 14:57:23 2015 No.6420609 >>6419785 >Zadie Smith >eeew all these straight white men

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:02:51 2015 No.6420634 File: 35 KB, 230x262, 1428701195845.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6420601

Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:06:33 2015 No.6420651
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>>6420213
Yes, they are. Please keep that face pining for a BBC out of /lit/.

>tfw Severian will never rise Terminus Est and chop off Failgels head

>>6420601
What a fag!
http://thoughtcatalog.com/kristen-roupenian/2012/09/this-should-not-be-a-love-story-reading-dt-maxs-biography-of-david-foster-wallace/

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:08:30 2015 No.6420656 File: 15 KB, 220x331, Booknewsun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6420634 FYI recovery meetings isn't hookup sites.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:33:56 2015 No.6420767 File: 234 KB, 286x496, HOW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6420601 God I am fucking oozing butt jelly right now

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:40:07 2015 No.6420787 >>6420634 >>6420767 Really? That story sounds kinda gross.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 15:44:07 2015 No.6420798 File: 23 KB, 613x431, 1429129885103.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6420787

>>	twinshia Sat Apr 18 16:51:46 2015 No.6421047 Isn't he hideous, though? Why would any girl subject themselves to being impaled by him?

>>	twinshia Sat Apr 18 17:00:11 2015 No.6421082 >>6419855 is there a difference?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 17:16:09 2015 No.6421156 He looks like such a goofball.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 17:25:50 2015 No.6421199 15 WARNING SIGNS THAT YOUR BOOK MAY MAKE YOU SEEM LIKE A HUGE FAGGOT http://mentalfloss.com/article/59486/15-facts-about-infinite-jest

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 18 17:44:22 2015 No.6421253 >>6421047 The vunerable at recovery groups would.

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