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Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:14:11 2016 No.7909398 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you wish you could incorporate footnotes as parentheticals or tangential remarks into your own writings but can't because you don't want to be seen as a DFW ripoff/wannabe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:18:30 2016 No.7909406 File: 130 KB, 600x321, ettudfw.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7909398 friend, footnotes have been around for a very long time. grow some balls!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:20:08 2016 No.7909415 op if u wasnt so pleb u wud kno dfw just got the idea for overdoing the footnotes from gibbon, he wasn't the originator of the overly long tedious footnote brah, its been done

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:20:19 2016 No.7909416 File: 2.25 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dfw took it from manuel puig, and its been around forever. Pic related: The life of john buncle (1756) by thomas amory

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:22:26 2016 No.7909418 File: 792 KB, 5796x3870, diaz1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] like it or not, author and garfield lookalike Junot Diaz pulled it off, so it's your own fault if you can't

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:22:31 2016 No.7909419 >>7909416 >>7909415 oh and if it makes you feel better, it's also been done SINCE dfw, e.g. Junot Díaz

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:23:57 2016 No.7909424 >>7909418 >>7909419 >00:22:26 >00:22:31 fucking based

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:27:00 2016 No.7909436 File: 389 KB, 500x262, very-lit.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7909424

Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:39:27 2016 No.7909454

robert anton wilson was doing that shit in the seventies and eighties.

in the second historical illuminatus book there was a second narrative going on in the footnotes, and near the end of the book a character from the footnote narrative got into the main story.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:46:59 2016 No.7909468 >>7909398 Put a bullet through your skull, OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 00:47:59 2016 No.7909471 >>7909468 lmao uncalled for

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 01:06:02 2016 No.7909520 >>7909468 I would much prefer to hang myself with a belt but I don't want to be seen as a DFW ripoff/wannabe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 01:06:40 2016 No.7909521 >>7909520 lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 01:28:09 2016 No.7909600 >>7909520 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 01:38:36 2016 No.7909626 >>7909520 nice job

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 03:02:59 2016 No.7909789 >>7909520 one for the ages guys

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