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Anonymous Fri Jun 9 13:40:30 2017 No.9616592 [Reply] [Original]

Was pic related the peak of american intelligentsia?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 13:42:53 2017 No.9616599 what an embarrassing era glad I suckled titty through most of it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 13:46:26 2017 No.9616616 How do you guys think DFW managed to control his power level around all those brainlets?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 14:37:12 2017 No.9616821 >>9616592 I had never even heard of the fourth guy before desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:03:15 2017 No.9616894 >>9616592 >ENLIGHTEN ME

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:05:52 2017 No.9616903 >>9616592 Why does Franzen have such a stupid haircut

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:09:02 2017 No.9616911 >>9616903 He has the second best hair after the interviewer

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:15:02 2017 No.9616924 File: 37 KB, 500x334, jonathan-franzen-david-foster-wallace-04-14-11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:16:25 2017 No.9616929 >>9616894 >go fish >no, ENLIGHTEN me >7s >ENLIGHTEN me

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:16:46 2017 No.9616930 File: 57 KB, 600x401, nvzfwo1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] please Ladies, no comments about hair

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:17:39 2017 No.9616934 >>9616924 Why are all those fags who met DFW so super adamant about letting you know that they knew DFW and let him suicide himself?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:21:11 2017 No.9616939 File: 157 KB, 1024x768, 1eec41be0ecf1995993899066094eb6a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9616934 name dropping I guess

Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:22:31 2017 No.9616947

>>9616592
yes

just four guys shooting the proverbial shit at its highest level of concentration

we may go to the stars and beyond but it'll never be like this again

a covert enterprise for dudes throughout time and space having one last scratch at the cat in an era where respect was the most scarce resource there was

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:23:35 2017 No.9616950 >>9616592 Charlie Rose? Yeah he is pretty much the best interviewer of all time.

Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:25:46 2017 No.9616956
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>>9616934
>you really made me realize what I was missing there anon let's just keep it a secret between you and me but you'll always be the one who convinced me out of those higher order self-esteem paradoxes and I'll just be here as well

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:27:09 2017 No.9616960 >>9616950 This is funny. When celebrities let loose on talk shows like Charlie Rose and Howard Stern and talk about all the women they've fucked but then that's basically YA writers all the time

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:28:43 2017 No.9616965 >>9616939 that is an ass to feast upon wtf not so big on the girl though

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:31:08 2017 No.9616973 File: 355 KB, 700x934, programma_177_19_david-foster-wallace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] chick magnet

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:33:34 2017 No.9616989 >four middle-class straight white males fucking lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 15:52:08 2017 No.9617059 >>9616989 Women can't write, Anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:06:16 2017 No.9617093 >>9616939 is that zadie smith's ass? i would stuff the shit out of that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:08:44 2017 No.9617099 >>9617093 no idea google images => pinterest maybe from this http://www.leconversazioni.it/it/media/2006.html

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:11:29 2017 No.9617107 >>9616592 On a semi-related note, Charlie Rose is the GOAT and I'll likely cry when he passes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:14:28 2017 No.9617113 >>9616592 I love DFW's little man bun

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:17:29 2017 No.9617122 >>9616973 Didn't know he smoked

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:22:05 2017 No.9617130 >>9616592 am I supposed to recognize the bald man?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:24:08 2017 No.9617138 >>9617122 He smoked ironically

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:24:33 2017 No.9617142 DFW alone, yes the rest, not so much

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:25:11 2017 No.9617144 >>9617130 He is Thomas Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:25:54 2017 No.9617147 >>9617130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfQl2LGhwc

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:28:46 2017 No.9617157 >when Leyner has a Paris Review Art of Fiction interview and DFW doesn't Absolute madness

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:29:53 2017 No.9617162 >>9617157 Who the fuck is Leyner? The interview in the OP is the only time I have ever heard of him

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:30:55 2017 No.9617168 >>9616939 What is that thing on his left socket?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:33:32 2017 No.9617178 >>9617168 That's Joathan Franzen, someone who knew DFW but did not prevent his suicide Apparently he also wrote a book

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 16:34:04 2017 No.9617182 File: 137 KB, 860x1049, Pedometer-eschenbach.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9617168 mechanical pedometer? Anyway I like his mix of effortless style, and dominant posture.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 17:07:28 2017 No.9617286 >>9617157 >The interview has to mention this tv segment with DFW to help give Leyner credibility

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 17:45:40 2017 No.9617424 >>9616616 by being the biggest brainlet of them all

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 17:52:35 2017 No.9617454 >>9617168 DUMB PHONEPOSTER

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 17:53:51 2017 No.9617457 File: 816 KB, 931x684, the A team.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No this was

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 17:54:02 2017 No.9617461 >>9616950 >tfw he will never interview Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:20:09 2017 No.9617541 >>9617147 Wow that leyner got absolutely wrecked, even with hindsight you could see who was qualified for success on this panel...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:24:55 2017 No.9617557 >>9617457 i just orgasmed looking at this image.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:30:32 2017 No.9617580 >>9616924 Is Franzen the Rivers Cuomo of literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:40:16 2017 No.9617619 File: 32 KB, 400x225, stick-you-pinky-in.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9617457 Wrong again, Chicagocuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:44:53 2017 No.9617633 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU Not American, but a good watch

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:54:53 2017 No.9617661 File: 73 KB, 798x798, smilelaugh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9617147 >that look between DFW and Franzen when Charlie Rose says Infinite Jest is long and complicated "even compared to the Internet"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 18:56:08 2017 No.9617664 >>9617633 just watched this last night - amazing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:18:43 2017 No.9617724 >>9617661 >DFW and Frazen were trolling that was even a thing. Man, why did someone so cool and so edgy like DFW have to die?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:21:47 2017 No.9617738 File: 99 KB, 428x496, lolu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9616616 He actually did not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:25:35 2017 No.9617750 >>9617580 Kek, yes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:39:13 2017 No.9617798 >>9617724 you'd have to ask DFW, he's the one who made the decision

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:43:04 2017 No.9617808 >>9617168 tin of chew, it's something tube-sock wearing Illinois folk did in the 90s

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 19:44:19 2017 No.9617812 File: 61 KB, 600x582, epic_lulz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9617580 Holy shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 20:18:43 2017 No.9617912 File: 14 KB, 480x360, kripkeputnamrando.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] no

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 20:21:34 2017 No.9617917 >>9617457 The league of anti-intellectuals. Don't know why people still read these guys.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 9 22:03:55 2017 No.9618220 >>9617917 Yes they are against ((intellectuals)) and their poisonous cowardice

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