/lit/ - Literature

>leading american intellectual
>monolingual
Was it his hubris? Could he not accept the fact that he couldn't just jump straight into Dante or Dosto and that he'd have to look like an idiot for a bit?

Do we still like him or are we pretending to hate him again?

was he really a genius

>>21916946
so?

>>21522873
He looks like black DFW

Was he particularly racist? I've heard some mewling libs complain about his racism back in uni. I don't actually care much, I love his work. Just would be amusing to know, as I am black. I tend to enjoy racist writers who don't write primarily about race, and this is the only place I can expect honest answers.

What's his legacy?

>>20418166
Hey, shut up. Nobody wants to hear it

Boomer authors are those born from 1946 to 1964. Do note that baby boomer authors are not the authors that baby boomers might have read, such as Thomas Pynchon or Kurt Vonnegut, who were much older. Discuss their works. Please post some baby boomer authors. David Foster Wallace would be 60 years old. I think Infinite Jest is interesting for featuring examples of experimental short films, as I think this is impressed by DFW's love of David Lynch's early work. In some sense, you do get a sense of .

Is infinite jest the best novel?

>He appeared to Marathe to look less like a woman than a twisted parody of womanhood.
What did he mean by this?

why do trannies hate him so much?

>But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

-Romans 7:6

When did you realize you are a pharisee?

>God, having made a subordinate unto man, in his genius religated all of their sexual pleasure to an underdeveloped penis rebranded as the clitoris.

>Once realized, that all women's pleasure comes from her tiny penis, and consequently your compartively larger one, you come to understand the nature of submissiveness and dominance in heterosexual simulacrum.

>Bully a woman for her tiny penis and it will twitch at the mention of it's inferiority, as was designated.

Any more quotes about women?

>This is wa-- ACK

>>19379248
I don't think he was balding, this photo is from 2006 and he was wearing the bandana for long before this. I always kind of took it as a weird little autist affectation. He said he wore it because he sweat like crazy, which tracks with some of the characters he wrote who were absolutely neurotic and terrified about how much they sweat.

was DFW good at philosophy?

What would he be doing today?

What would he have to say about the world today?

Do you think he ever visited 4chan before he died? I wish he had stuck around to write a book about the current state of the internet and things.

>OOH look at me, reader. you and I are not so different, but I'm also so much fucking superior and smarter than you'll ever dream to be muhahaha but I'm also humble and selfconscious and empathetic

>>18325627

Thoughts on pic rel?