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22692626 No.22692626 [Reply] [Original]

am i tripping or was there this mean interviewer who once accused him of "pontificating"?

>> No.22692658

Don't watch TV -- the writer

>> No.22692663

>>22692626
He looks like he smells

>> No.22692772

>>22692626
Yes that happened
>'pontificate'... that's a nice word

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>>22692626
The camera man said it but the camera man clearly thought it was just a way to say "thinking" and Wallace used it in his standard self deprecating way. It is in the unedited German interview that most of the screen caps are from, picrel. It was part of his way to buy time in answering questions and a way for him to point out that he can not possibly word the answer in a way he would prefer to—as he did in his writing—the limitations of of the format.

>> No.22693279

>>22692658
I don’t get this meme with DFW. Did you guys forget the essay where he wrote about just how much TV he used to watch per day? He’s only so critical of TV because he saw it as essentially a new fixture in modern American life, he’s obsessed with it because he’s in an ambivalent and unwilling relationship with it which he feels unable to escape (aka. an addiction) in the same way that people critique capitalism but still buy product/works job, etc. (because everyone else does and We Live In A Society). He was a TV realist not a Kaczynski.
>>22692943
This, it was the cameraman.