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Anonymous Mon Mar 14 00:56:44 2016 No.7809690 [DELETED]

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What the fuck happened to Dave posting? That was honestly the only redeemable part of this board

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 00:59:35 2016 No.7809697 No one over the age of 21 gave a fuck about DFW posting. It was always a red flag for a younger poster whenever you saw it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:00:26 2016 No.7809699 File: 609 KB, 805x741, 1451537160893.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7809697

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:01:42 2016 No.7809702 >>7809690 We realized that he was just a mixed-up gen x version of Kafka who wanted to be Dostoevsky. And but so every jest story is a terribly sad and banal story, fampai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:07:12 2016 No.7809721 >>7809699 Kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:15:32 2016 No.7809747 >The Story of Daveposting on /Lit/ But Of Course You End Up Becoming A Meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:23:55 2016 No.7809778 I'm honestly not sure. /lit/ seems to have cycles of loving and hating DFW. The few people that actually read on this board know that he's a fantastic author.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:26:43 2016 No.7809791 >>7809778 He's not terrible but he's overrated as fuck, and for the wrong book too

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:27:56 2016 No.7809796 >>7809791 which book do you think is his best, anon

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:29:17 2016 No.7809801

>>7809778
I've read Infinite Jest, Oblivion, The Broom of the System, and half of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in that order so far.

I don't know if I'd call him fantastic. His writing is captivating and entertaining for sure, but to me that's a result of both its merits and its flaws.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:41:23 2016 No.7809839
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This board seems to be obsessed with DFW because they read him at a formative moment in their lives.

I'm 29. I have never ever read David Foster Wallace. I mean, I got halfway through "Consider the Lobster", but that's it.

What did I miss out on?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 01:58:11 2016 No.7809870 >>7809796 curious hair

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 02:05:28 2016 No.7809891 >>7809870 What a curious choice :))

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 02:08:58 2016 No.7809897

>>7809839
I'm >>7809801 24 years old, and I only started reading his books a few months ago. I wouldn't call it an obsession on my part, but he's the most interesting literary figure in recent times. Watch some of his interviews on YouTube if you want to see what I mean by that, especially that hour long one from 2003 that all the wacky screenshots in this thread come from.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 03:55:30 2016 No.7810120 I read Consider the Lobster at 12 and I then decided I wanted to be a writer. At least I think it was 12 because I hadn't masturbated yet. That essay about the porn convention was awfully... flummoxing. tldr DFW woke me from sexual naivete

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 04:06:57 2016 No.7810127 >>7810120 Did you not have internet access or cable tv growing up or something? I was already watching porn and whacking it by the age of 9 in the early 00s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 04:20:52 2016 No.7810138 >>7810127 I had restrictive parents.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 06:01:19 2016 No.7810280 >>7809870 Really? Gosh, that's eccentric

Anonymous Mon Mar 14 10:59:32 2016 No.7810767
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I read The Pale King first. I only bought it because it had "An Unfinished Novel" as the by line. Both loved and hated it over the next week as I read it. After that I read IJ and Broom. Then moved onto his essays and shorts. He is one of my favorite authors.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 12:42:58 2016 No.7810999 why he gotta kill hisself senpai? Sometimes it feels like he's still alive.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 12:44:20 2016 No.7811004 >>7809897 >i onlys tarted reading books a few months ago >i'm still gonna make sweeping pronouncements on literature even though i'm reading babby's first books fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 13:03:02 2016 No.7811056 >>7811004 He said HIS books

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 19:41:51 2016 No.7812352 Was Dave a meme before he killed himself?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 19:43:47 2016 No.7812360 File: 313 KB, 539x435, Screen Shot 2016-01-09 at 1.08.04 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812352 Yes. Other people merely adopted the meme. But he was born in it. Molded by it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:15:57 2016 No.7812491 >>7811004 See >>7811056 Shamefur dispray, fampai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:17:43 2016 No.7812499 >DAVID FOSTER WALL-AAAAACE POST THE VIDE O S T T H E V I D

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:20:51 2016 No.7812510 >>7812499 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:22:05 2016 No.7812516 >>7812510 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY its this one u newfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:26:43 2016 No.7812531 >>7812516 >no punctuation >u Kill "ur"self, retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 20:26:51 2016 No.7812532 >>7809690 I realized that new sincerity won't save us. The only way out is to become ironic superman with perpetual shit eating grin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:01:08 2016 No.7812649 /r/ing the dfw where it looks like he's scolding with his finger

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:05:34 2016 No.7812667 File: 119 KB, 267x292, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.04.52 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812510 going through this now, capping some memes. feel free to save.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:06:54 2016 No.7812674 File: 121 KB, 257x309, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.06.32 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812667

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:09:56 2016 No.7812685 File: 116 KB, 247x305, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.09.35 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812676

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:15:33 2016 No.7812700 File: 160 KB, 343x315, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.15.13 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812695

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:19:17 2016 No.7812715 File: 113 KB, 262x307, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.18.56 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812700

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:21:14 2016 No.7812722 >>7812715 love you dave

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:23:28 2016 No.7812730 File: 152 KB, 341x317, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.22.43 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812649

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:24:33 2016 No.7812733 File: 128 KB, 274x297, Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 9.24.18 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812722

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:25:03 2016 No.7812735 >>7812733 really love you dave

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:25:20 2016 No.7812736 please more "saucy" daves and fewer "horny" daves

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:29:21 2016 No.7812750 File: 192 KB, 376x390, dfw o really.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7812736 >>7812735

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:31:42 2016 No.7812760 >>7812750 dave dont go away again

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:51:40 2016 No.7812846 I saw the rise, peak and fall of DFW posting. And there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 21:54:00 2016 No.7812856 >>7812846 There's an earth-shatteringly lugubrious atmosphere around that statement, and there's something terribly sad and banal about that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:09:44 2016 No.7812910 File: 147 KB, 384x405, 1451617898199.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7809697 oh you

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:16:01 2016 No.7812924 >>7812531 God such a newfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:29:05 2016 No.7812972 >>7812510 Holy shit has anyone ever sat through this entirely? It's so cringey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:29:06 2016 No.7812973 >>7812846 >And there's something terribly sad and banal about that. Where does DFW say this in his writing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:31:32 2016 No.7812982 >>7812973 >this new

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 22:37:41 2016 No.7813001 File: 257 KB, 434x440, 1426807701875.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always try to give my DFWs exercise once and a while

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:03:40 2016 No.7813102 File: 9 KB, 236x177, 883965fbb68b9d4274b1fddb8465b424.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7810120 Redditor fag please go.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:09:42 2016 No.7813122 How would David react to his memeification?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:11:22 2016 No.7813127 >>7813122 We already know the answer

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:15:11 2016 No.7813147 >>7813122 He would take it as a sign that his attempt at being serious in an age of non-seriousness and non-'truth' failed and that he really was the doofus he feared he was. I think it would be a genuinely sad thing for him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:17:34 2016 No.7813159 >>7813122 He probably would have killed himself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:18:59 2016 No.7813165 File: 128 KB, 352x335, DFW.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >all these retards thinking that daveposting is somehow venerating him

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:24:18 2016 No.7813184 File: 201 KB, 324x447, dfw i don't think so.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7813165 >>>all these retards thinking that daveposting is somehow venerating him >is a daveposter i like u

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:25:52 2016 No.7813191 >>7813165 >>7813184 wow you guys fit in here, that's so cool

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:26:12 2016 No.7813193 >>7813147 Banal too?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:32:42 2016 No.7813225 >>7813193 I am too autistic to understand what you mean by this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:34:09 2016 No.7813229 File: 124 KB, 380x353, 1451273218002.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7813147 >implying he didn't just write for audience pussy

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:35:04 2016 No.7813233 File: 220 KB, 347x440, dfw cringe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7813225 there's something terribly sad and banal about that

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:38:21 2016 No.7813248 >>7813233 My thought is banal or the reaction, were it real, would be banal? Thank you for helping me work through my autism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:42:46 2016 No.7813266 >>7813248 ok im gonna help you out on this one. what i want you to do is close this thread. close your browser, step away from your computer and walk for about 1 minute while thinking about nothing in particular.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 14 23:56:36 2016 No.7813327 >>7813266 No thanks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 15 04:31:53 2016 No.7814064 >>7809697 x1000 times this reminder to sage and report all these shitty meme threads, that way we can actually enjoy talking about literature.

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