/lit/ - Literature

No, they're called teenagers.

>>6000262
posted by some bottomfeeder who only likes the "classics"

How does it feel to be in le wrong generation

>>6000262
laughed out lod

>>6000333
Nice strawman!

>>6000262
oh man, post of the year so far

>>6000262
le UPVOTE to you witty sir I wish I was born in the right generation

>>6000262
You're either one of the most patrician or plebian men I've ever met, but what's more important, you're right.

>>6000333
R3k+

>>6000345
woah cool term. had to wikipedia that one!

>>6000345
Thats not even a strawman. Jesus Christ, you really are a teenager

>>6000262

>>6000262
>book praised by countless people way over the age of 19
>book pushes boundaries of contemporary literature in a time when that idea is not necessarily stressed
>only teenagers read this book
>DFW is bad.
ok dude

>>6000618
>falling for a meme this hard

>>6000628
memey meme me memeing on em doggie! oops done got memed on should i question mys sexuality. incancdenza filmography slowly approaching. INtesntisyfying memes instensify getting memed on constantly in public
>tfw got memeed on abranes&nobles last weekend memein my way through the annals of history.
>tfw DFW memein on sinewaves grave mistake hereunto on paved persons allocated equivocation.

>>6000640
>>6000262
Nice Memememememmemememmemememmemememme holy shit I think im having a stroke...MEME!!! MEEEEMMMMEE!!! MEEEMMEEMEMMEMEMEMEMMEME

>>6000628
shoh shboy shou shure showed 'em' shunny

RIP in peace /lit/

Joyce fans are called Joysters
Poe fans are called Ravens
Rowling fans are called Potheads
Ian Banks fans are called Jews

>>6000605
>never heard of strawman before
>used on everyboard on 4chan regularly since its inception (for obvious reasons)

this doesn bode well...

>>6000618
>book praised by countless people way over the age of 19

Anyone who matters?

It's a meme, you dip!

>>6000605

>>6000723
shoh shboy shou shure showed 'em' shunny

reading infinite jest right now and its super funny and easy to read... How does anybody not like this book? He maps gives the layout of an airduct system just so he can explain how Hal smokes dope. Thats fucking hilarious !!

He helped me when no one else could

>>6000807
Thank you dfw

>>6000776
...or is it?

>>6000250
why does everyone make fun of this without saying whats so funny, what's so funny about IJ

>>6000640
>tfw this meme thing is um like tricky
>tfw we can't make fun of memes using the meme format
>tfw we're all meme whores

Ecks Day/May to da May

>>6000951

My guess is that it became a book for "smart" people and only "smart" people read it, so it's a badge of honor and status to say you've read something like IJ because it's really long and postpostmodern, and all of that makes you "smart", and you can brag to your friends and coworkers how "smart" you are. I don't really know.

>>6000909
No like it's pretty funny because I've definitely jumped through some hoops to get high and very meticulously planned out how I can get away with covertly smoking pot. DFW is just providing a hilarious and more absurd take on something i'm sure many people have done.

>>6000807
>>6000981
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>>6000423

This is what David Foster Wallace died for

>>6000981
motherfuckers always greasy
stay greasy

>>6001056
no, he is always perspirating. \

>>6001035
Fresh cooked maymay

>>6001132
das it mane

DFWs face as the girl says ''I was having a simplistic notion''

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>>6001180
hold it all in buddy

>>6001132
He's not even Pomo, tho

>>6001169
>>6001180
Does anyone know what the interviewer looked like, was she a qt?

>>6001204
She was prolly pretty tappable

>>6001204
>>6001251
Her behaviour and the questions she asks drive me mad, she drives me insane

>>6001261
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wSn81dLK6s

>>6001251
So...did he tap it

>>6001293
If biographies serve, Wallace was a horndog. Didn't get married until '04, this interview was '03. Perhaps he got some oil on the old piston, but all of that is lost now.

RIP you stuttering sweat gland of genius

>dfw I didn't save all my dfw faces from that epic footnotes thread

>>6001687

>hasn't been keeping a well-stocked DFW folder for over three years

are you even trying?

>>6001687
start today

>>6001687
You can pause that interview at any point and make a reaction image.

>>6000618

>book pushes boundaries of contemporary literature.

Not really. Ayn Rand wrote an unreadable tome way before DFW was born

>>6001707

>>6001707
>he thinks IJ is unreadable

>>6000981
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>>6001714
stop raping him

>>6001724

>>6001724
Do you think dfw would find these threads funny? Or would he be mad?

>>6001724
Not rape if he can't say no

>>6001745
This is kind of a paradox.

>>6001741

He would love to see himself being talked about. I imagine he would be the kind of person to misunderstand imageboard and memetic culture, he would think all the praise is sincere

>mfw posting a dfw pic in a chinese cartoon forum at 4:35 am

>>6001758
its only 11:30 here keep going

>>6001741
He'd get fussy like the seven year old autist he was. He might even hang himself.

Good night everyone

>>6001741
He would start making all the faces posted in the thread and start perspirating.

>>6001768
>He might even hang himself

>mfw posting taiwanese chicken breeding board memetics on a breached and rapidly depressurizing russian space prison

>>6001755
are you being serious

>>6001714
Not unreadable because it's difficult, but because it's incoherent garbage. It's kinda paradox in a big picture kinda way

>>6001851
>It's kinda paradox in a big picture kinda way

>>6001758
tfw got that literary lifestyle steeze

>>6001741
He'd think, 'All of these people are anonymous, definable only by each individual 'post', so I can't tell whether they're being sincere, and so implicitly, by dint of insincerity being of temperament what nihilism is of philosophy, i.e. the default, they are definitively incapable of sincerity, and so they've made a cult of their resultant loneliness and have stylized me, as the degenerated pagans under Nero would posthumously stylize Jesus Christ, as their cosmic antagonist, and but so they know that I'm right, but also they can't afford that knowledge, and so but then, as it goes in the parlance of their decade, or such is how they feel, I can tell, 'I am the hero they deserve, but not the one they need right now, so they hunt me', and but so if that were tragic, if I were furious about that, then the whole of history would only be tragedy and its stage as empty, fretful, sound- and furyful as Hamlet feared, but if I promise you it's not will you promise to believe me?' Then he'd make a tripcode and start a series of meme threads on books that warn against anonymity.

>>6001755
>>6001741
all this shit would make him lock himself in his apartment and cry for a few days

>>6001851
>incoherent garbage
>It's kinda paradox in a big picture kinda way
I love when people try to criticize this book when they clearly haven't read it.

DAVID
FOSTER
WALLACE

>>6002070
In fact, I haven't. I've read his essays, and I was deeply offended by most of them. Most notably his essay on Garner's Modern American Usage.

I am not reading a 1100 page book by a whining narcissistic academic before making fun of him on an anonymous Tasmanian boomerang discussion imageboard.