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He did so much research into tennis, addiction, and Quebecois separatism.

Why couldn't he find just ONE black person to proofread the Wardine chapter?

>> No.7941619

>>7941610
cuz dfw was a straight up nigga if i eva met one nigga

>> No.7941832

>>7941610

David Foster Wallace's phobia of black people is well-documented

>> No.7941855

Because he's a fucking hack.

Reading Infinite Keks was definitely
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

>> No.7941858

>>7941610
He literally bullied black girls in his class for fun, then wrote about the experience and had it published. Sick guy

>> No.7941869

>>7941832
where?

>> No.7941877

>>7941869

I'm not about to teach you to use google

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7941882

I wouldn't risk it.

>> No.7941885

>>7941877
You're bluffing anon. Ain't shit on google.

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>>7941610
>Proofreading a chapter that could literally be about anything from a mentally ill person all the way to a white Jamaican pidgin user

There is a reason that nobody on this board will ever become a literary critic, and you just illustrated it.

>> No.7942267

>>7941858
??

>> No.7942281

>>7941610
>researching for a novel
There's your first red flag
Why couldn't this shithead just stick to essays?

>> No.7942288

Vive le Québec libre!

>> No.7942305

>>7942281
some of the best novels ever written were the fruit of years of research, i.e. any novel by Flaubert or Zola