/lit/ - Literature

Is suicide a good stunt to increase your readership?

Why read the books of someone who failed at life?

>All this business about people committing suicide when they’re “severely depressed;” we say, “Holy cow, we must do something to stop them from killing themselves!” That’s wrong. Because all these people have, you see, by this time already killed themselves, where it really counts. By the time these people swallow entire medicine cabinets or take naps in the garage or whatever, they’ve already been killing themselves for ever so long. When they “commit suicide,” they’re just being orderly. They’re just giving external form to an event the substance of which already exists and has existed in them over time. Once you realize what’s going on, the event of self-destruction for all practical purposes exists. There’s not much a person is apt to do in this situation, except “formalize” it, or, if you don’t quite want to do that, maybe “E.C.T.” or a trip away from the Earth to some other planet, or something.

Why did he like David Lynch so much?

Is it a cope to pretend someone who is schizophrenic or suicidal still had relevant things to say?

Reminder that DFW is a Lynch fag.

https://youtu.be/wie8uPgQOYE

I am in here.

>>15374374
>he's not gay for daddy wallace