/lit/ - Literature

The book centers around the theme of his quote "everybody worships" as in, everyone has a thing, be it drugs, or tennis, or avoiding drugs, or television, or talking about yourself, etc. The way the book deals with this is multifaceted. Obviously you have the footnotes, which rip you out of the story and force you to constantly realize you are reading a book and make it to where you are never quite in the flow state of reading, which is the addiction of the reader. The footnotes also represent the disassociation that tennis represents, this back and forth without being engaged with someone in a direct, two way mode. Which is another aspect of the book. All the characters talk past each other whenever they do actually have a conversation. Everyone is disconnected because they are obsessed with their own stuff going on. When characters actually do work together to do something, when the plot is actually happening, it's not even in the book. It happens between the end and the beginning, which is why you have the whole time jump nonsense, both so that there is no plot but also, again to make you realize you are constantly reading a book and being self aware of the book. The MacGuffin of the book is itself an object of desire of the individuals, so much so that it kills the viewer, and a fake out of there actually being a plot, the repetitive reference to it, as if something is going to happen, but because we know the plot happens after, it never does. All the while, while all this disassociation is going on, he is writing in a maximalist style, so that you empathize with all the characters who live in their own little bubbles, yearning for them to come to know each other as you know them, but that's the magic of reading, that's the joke, they never will, only you will, isolating you even further and causing an internal emotional turmoil that will never be resolved, which is, the whole deal with the fungus and hal and his emotionally stunted growth and his eventual radicalization to the human experience.

Reminder that the push in the last few decades for YA fiction has nothing to do with readers and everything to do with a dying industry. Its the marketers last hail Mary to get whatever is left of this dying hobby to cling so some surface level addictive writing like fantasy or sci fi. Thats why the new Yorker pushed Cat Pearson so hard. Its also why movie upon movie, which everyone knows beforehand is heavy handed dribble gets released and eaten up. Its the final climactic yawp of a suffering franchise. Dont hate the change. Embrace it. Eat mcdonalds.

>>16338586

/DFW/ General

Today's topic: How's the water?

Mario Incandenza in a completely platonic and straight way.

>>7190004
>He doesn't read Spurdo out loud.
I honestly feel for you.

>>6839126

>summer read
>one book

idk man I'm just tryna get rid of all these spooks

>>6580750
and the same goes for Wallace to a certain extent. In terms of credibility maybe, as unfortunate as that reality is.

>>6497074
I once got banned for a day for posting this pic. I just had made it from a pic in that thread, there were no dubs related to anything but the mod decided I was breaking global rules.

Why are there like four different threads about this.

>>6472056

>objectively

There's that word again.

>>6442105
>There's no discernible talent

>when you're taken a nice fat SHIT and then you remember David dead

>Actually, though its prose & monotone are haunt-ingly pedestrian, the novel's diffracted system of allusions to everythingfrom antiquity to Astroturf are a bitch to trace out
DFW wrote that in an academic paper. How was he allowed to curse?

did the "maximalism" novelty wear off or did he actually pull of writing a 1k+ word novel (inc. footnotes)[1] ?

[1] I think he did, there were some chapters that felt irrelevant and "show-offy", but they were at least mildly amusing

>>6112620
it's always 2011 in our hearts, anon

>>6055379
>>6055387
I actually read "sticky", that works too.

>>6020735

>implying this master patrician was a pleb

>>5979690
>tfw can't read Infinite Jest because I have to turn in The Autobiography of Malcom X tomorrow
>tfw don't want to renew TAoMX because I just requested Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence"
>tfw IJ won't get finished this summer due to spring classes

>>5953166
You don't do that. You make it important and revisit it at some point. You might also tie it to an important scene so people end up remembering it by association.

Also, pic related

i'm just shy of 3001 pages in: it's challenging but not ball breaking2. it is funny in both droll and crass3 ways.

1 - 297 to be exact
2 - no matter what /lit/4 says
3 - the farting habits of Canadians? pre-terrance & philip
4 - I have my doubts they even read half the books they talk about, but instead just dump memes and watch videos about books and authors. this in turn makes me think deeply about the insecurity in the world that people would anonymously pretend to read books.

>>5889624
gets are a spook

>>5876599

>consider your consciously congruent numerals checked