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my heart breaks thinking about the man he could've been, the words he will never write

>> No.13880374

>>13880362
Is that Keanu Reeves?

>> No.13880406

is that joseph gordon levitt?

>> No.13880417

>>13880362
Is this a photo of Keith Richards?

>> No.13880419

Is that Bruce Willis?

>> No.13880452

>>13880362
Is that a hipster Ben Affleck?

>> No.13880457

exactly what dfw would've written had he lived:

He decided to like her instagram picture. She received the notification. She wasn't sure if it was meant flirtatiously, or if it was done in a sort of friendliness like way, and but so he had liked it flirtatiously, though she didn't know and wouldn't know, wouldn't know now would one now would one now would one.

>> No.13880463

>>13880457
You can just tell when someone's knowledge of an author exclusively comes from shitposts and memes on /lit/

>> No.13880466

>>13880463
No, I had my DFW phase in my early 20's too.

>> No.13880498

What's 'new sincerity' exactly? Any examples?

>> No.13880549

>>13880362
Is that tom hardy?

>> No.13880560

>>13880498
Any art/activity which values being direct and earnest rather than the over intellectuality, high brow, complexity of contemporary art

>> No.13880586

>>13880498
no it doesnt grapple with anything postmodernism says it just ignores it

>> No.13880595

>>13880362
The Pale King and Oblivion were his best stuff imo, wish we could see more of that and what he was moving toward

>> No.13880598

If you want to see what DFW was gonna write just read Richard Rorty, he had a hardon for the guy

>> No.13880688

>>13880362
DFW diagnosed the irony poisoning of youth culture in 1990, I don't think he would've wanted to see the world today

>> No.13880743

>>13880498
It's just a work of art without irony, but exclusively as a reaction to modern irony.

>> No.13880832

Is that the fat guy from Shaun of the Dead?

>> No.13880834
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>>13880498

>> No.13880846

>>13880834
Unbelievably stupid, though not DFW.

>> No.13880850
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>>13880846

>> No.13880858

>>13880834
>>13880850
I'll punch myself in the face if he actually wrote this shitty nonsense

>> No.13880998

Stop suicide-shaming him!!! Think about the widow!!!

>> No.13882089

>>13880463
Where's the lie though?

>> No.13882109

>>13880362
I wish we'd got a finished Pale King at least. It would have phenomenal

>> No.13882254

>>13882109
He couldn't bare the expectation.

>> No.13882268

>>13880362
He was far more unwell than I'd have guessed. The DT Max biography makes it clear that he was close to the edge of suicide for much of his life. I worry you don't get a brain that smart unless it's loaded with existential woe

>> No.13882278

>>13882109
It hurts to read, imagining somewhere in the multiverse he completed it, checked into a hospital, transitioned to a better drug/therapy...

>> No.13882288

>>13882278
Even if we had a technology to resurrect him, he would have killed himself again.