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Anonymous Tue Apr 25 17:23:51 2017 No.9427696 [Reply] [Original]

Did DFW have ADD? Or was that kind of writing style purposeful. Ive been reading Oblivion and got through Mister Squishy and Started The soul is not a Smithy. He spends so much time on "random?" (maybe not random) descriptive tangents. Is he doing it on purpose or is it a reflection of how he was in real life? Also general DFW thread I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 17:30:49 2017 No.9427724 why do we seek to pathologize degrees of normality

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 17:32:15 2017 No.9427731 >>9427724 I am just interested in if thats his writing style intentionally or accidentally.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 17:47:33 2017 No.9427796 >>9427696 It was done on purpose. He wanted his writing to seem stylistically "fractured", which is also why he added the footnotes and endnotes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 18:10:31 2017 No.9427872 It must have been so fucking exhausting constantly going off on tangents of thought like that. No wonder he died

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 20:19:48 2017 No.9428420 >>9427696 It was on purpose. It serves different reasons in different stories but like the other anon said it was mostly used to fracture story. I don't think someone who used to do math logic all day had ADD.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 20:48:09 2017 No.9428496 This is your hero, /lit/? Some guy so embarrassed by his hairline he had to wear bandannas in public

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 25 20:51:25 2017 No.9428505 >>9428496 i know this is bait but he wore bandannas because he was self-conscious of all the sweat that would accumulate on his forehead when in anxiety-inducing situations, like the interview in OP's pic

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