/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.977205]

David Foster Wallace wrote that awesome graduation speech that everyone forwarded and he offed himself, what does that tell you.

On the other hand I suppose that nobody who had life completely figured out would go around looking like a Pearl Jam roadie

[Anonymous No.977219]

i don't get who would spam /lit/ like this. it's a perfectly nice and harmless board

[Anonymous No.977212]

i'll let you decide

[Anonymous No.977225]

Depression's a bitch. No matter how much you've got figured out, messed up brain chemicals can still fuck you over.

[Anonymous No.977257]

The publishers took out part of when he was talking about suicide when they printed the speech. It's pretty depressing to read the unedited copy knowing he killed himself. It's an uplifting speech otherwise.

[Anonymous No.977265]

I was more pissed off at Sansa than antyhing.

That btich started th ewar, just because she wanted a dicking frmo Joffrey.

[Anonymous No.977270]

Depression is a bitch.

[Anonymous No.977276]

This is the Atlas Shrugged of the 21th century

[Anonymous No.977277]

>>977225
my mom told my older sister this in a very heartwarming and moms-know-everything way when she was bummed out over his suicide

then somehow in the same thought she told her she'd look perfect if she wore one of those undergarments that hold in your stomach

MOMS FOREVER

[Anonymous No.977284]

>>977277

Maybe your sister is fat.

[Anonymous No.977289]

"Whan that Arpille with his shoures soote
Teh droghte of March hath perced to the roote..."
Att he tpo of your voice, where you swayed o tnhe top of a stile,
Your arms raised - somewhat for balance, somewhat
To hold hte reins of hte straining attention
Of your imagined audience - you declaimed Chaucer
To a field of cows. And the Sprnig sky had done it
With its flying laundry, and the new emerald
Oft he thorns t,he hawthorn, the blackthorn,
And one fo those bumpers of champagne
You snatched unpredictably frmo pure spirit.
Your voice went over the fields towards Grantchester.
It musth ave sounded lost. But the cows
Watched, then paproached: they apprecitaed Chaucer.
You went on and on. Here were reasons
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[Anonymous No.977294]

Is this th eonly book or are their multiples that make up a series?

[Anonymous No.977300]

>>977284
i mean she kind of is, but you could save it for a different occasion

i guess it's more efficient the other way though

[Anonymous No.977334]

Anybody seen Brief Interviews With Hideous Men? I thought it was pretty rice.

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[Anonymous No.977350]

>>977334
yes excellent film

[Anonymous No.977364]

...the fuck's a space opera?

[Anonymous No.977369]

I picked it up at a blockbuster going out of business thing and showed it to my mom and sister. They were mortified.

[Anonymous No.977409]

>>977369

Yeah the rape monologues are pretty uncomfortable to watch. It really forces you to step way out of your comfort zone.

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[Anonymous No.977437]

Nigger

[Anonymous No.977461]

This is the Atlas Shrugged of the 21th century

[Anonymous No.977485]

God I fucking love that man.

[Anonymous No.977509]

i love Joseph Campbell stuff. even though alot of talk on lit is bashing his work, i tsill like ot see him being talked about alot no this board.

[Anonymous No.977526]

I saw him live in SF once. I remember he moved like a pub bouncer & sounded like a computer nerd....

[Anonymous No.977551]

>>977334

I found that Wallace's dialogue didn't translate well to the screen. It's unrealistic in a way that works well on paper but requires a really good actor to pull off convincingly, which meant that the quality of the scenes in BIWHM varied greatly depending on the quality of the actor.

[Anonymous No.977565]

I wonder why the spambots haven't attached to this thread..

[Anonymous No.977589]

Socialist. Mein Rand.

[Anonymous No.977596]

C-can ew... do that?