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Thoughts?

>> No.7878714

>>7878700

David Foster Wallace didn't look like a fucking caveman

>> No.7878716

I don't understand why Jesse Eisenberg gets cast in anything. The dude is such a shit actor.

>> No.7878719

>>7878700
garbage, haven't seen it.

>> No.7878722

>>7878700
Is that lex luthor?

>> No.7878731
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7878731

Terribly sad and banal.

>> No.7878732

>>7878719
it's actually rather enjoyable if you accept the obvious reduction & can suspend your snobbish cynicism

>> No.7878737

>>7878731
wasn't that the point, n'es pas?

>> No.7878742

>>7878700

I really liked it although I think IJ is one of the most overrated novels ever, and also that DFW is only good for memes.

>> No.7878745

>>7878737
It lacked the multilevel multilingual puns just beneath that subsurface of ironic banality to really impress, tho.

>> No.7878748

>>7878719
Ignorance: The Post

>> No.7878758

>>7878745
>just beneath that subsurface of ironic banality
...ok champ

>> No.7878762
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>>7878758
I'm not your champ, senpai.

>> No.7878767

>>7878762
please, explain yourself; or forever be considered a dilettante

>> No.7878777
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7878777

>>7878767
You're expecting a bit too much from a DFW thread. However, I like the particular arrays of 7s and 8s in your post numbers.

>> No.7878783

Which film or whatever is this?

>> No.7878786

>>7878777
10/10 for confirming all assumptions

>> No.7878789

>>7878783
Fear and Loathing in Dallas/Fort Worth.

>> No.7878794

>>7878786
At least I got free trips. And punctuation.

>> No.7878807

Focused too much on the idea of "St. David" the good guy who gave that hokey speech about water and not enough on the sociopath who threw people out of cars, and threw coffee tables at women, and went through audience pussy like tissues.

>> No.7878811

>>7878807
He did nothing wrong. He was just a little troubled sometimes.

>> No.7878823

>>7878737
jesus if you're going to be a fucking pseud and use expressions from other languages at least have the decency of doing it correctly

fuck I bet you scare women when you approach them and call them "darlings" and "dears"

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>>7878823
nice projection

>> No.7878836

>>7878828
n'es pas?

>> No.7878890

>>7878828
i can wholeheartedly assure that that even though you're scorning at me now that you wouldn't address my metaphors with a cowards laughter if you had the intelligence to infer that the post was all, I admit, de moi.

>> No.7878895
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>>7878890
>SCORNING AT ME

>> No.7880449

It was OK, but actually it sucked.

>> No.7880473

>>7878836
n'est-ce pas