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>It was universally well known that your basic Orientoid types carried their earthly sum-total of personal wealth with them at all times. As in on their person while they scuttles around…the Chinese female species of Oriental used shopping bags to carry their personal wealth.

WTF how did DFW get away with all these passages?? Did he think no one would actually read through his book?

>> No.8839356

>>8839349
this is relevant to my interests

>> No.8839360

What the fuck did I just read

>> No.8839361

SWEET CHILD O' MINEEEEE

>> No.8839378

>>8839360
the ramblings of a racist author - David Foster Wallace

>> No.8839379

How do you not get that the narrator is speaking in terms of how the relevant character thinks and sees stuff.

>> No.8839402

>>8839379
yeah, that would be the excuse in court.

>> No.8839429

>>8839349
based DFW understands the eternal Chink

>> No.8839432
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8839432

>>8839379
>the old "I'm not racist, only my characters are"

Dave was a clever guy

>> No.8839456

>>8839432
knew he couldn't just come out and say these things, so he cleverly placed his message in the words of his characters for his white brothers to find.

>> No.8839469

>>8839349
I always thought it was silly when he would randomly describe something as faggy

>> No.8839478

>Did he think no one would actually read through his book
and he was right

>> No.8839483

>>8839379
yeah, i thought that was really neat. how do you go about naming that sort of narrator? "third-person limited sympathetic" or some shit?

>> No.8839707

>>8839483
It's called free indirect discourse. Famously used in Pride and Prejudice and subsequently by... too many writers to name. The Dead in Dubliners is always a classic example too.

>> No.8839709

>>8839707
Wtf I love Jane Austen now!

>> No.8839716

>>8839709
I find it weird that you've gone so far as to read the big meme book but have never come across free indirect discourse. Unless you are memeing me, which in that case, it makes sense that you've read the meme book.

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8839720

>>8839349
>when he literally describes their chink language as "monkey noises"
The 90s were a different time.