[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature


View post   

File: 36 KB, 590x421, 453245235.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14337694 No.14337694 [Reply] [Original]

Was David Foster Wallace insane?

>"tried to buy a gun. kicked me. climbed up the side of my house at night. followed my son age 5 home from school. had to change my number twice, and he still got it. months and months it went on."

>> No.14337703

>>14337694
Wonder what would've happened if he had done that in the current social climate.

>> No.14338070

How fucked up do you have to be to be unable to buy a gun in America?
They sell guns to any fucking lunatic.

>> No.14338073

No. He's a based, chivalrous knight.

>> No.14338103

>>14337694
Famous author has lengthy mental issues
Nothibg to see here

>> No.14338117

seems like pretty redpilled behavior to me. the actions of an anguished artist.

>> No.14338120

Yes, he was a diagnosed schizophrenic. Read his story "The Planet Trillaphon"

>> No.14338125

>>14333950

>> No.14338441

why did he love that bitch so much?

>> No.14338483
File: 266 KB, 994x340, 8168152991.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14338483

>>14338117

>> No.14338492 [SPOILER] 
File: 62 KB, 557x700, 1576198335730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14338492

>>14337694
Mary Karr is exhibit A for why organizations restrict women's shoe fashions. Poor Professor Wallace likely had no chance once she started her warm-up dangling routine

>> No.14338504

>>14338117
Based

>> No.14338510
File: 107 KB, 640x480, Mary-Karr-Feet-1204822.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14338510

>>14338492
Mary Karr's devotion to high-fashion footwear is remarkable. It sounds like much of her winnings as a writer went to cool shoes. But she has been unequivocal: her fancy shoes crippled her, not figuratively but literally. One wonders if the gods are punishing her with an ironic injury to her choice instruments of seduction, her most powerful pieces.

>> No.14338541
File: 2.48 MB, 2000x1283, 'A Point of Order Regarding Virtual Reality' - David Foster Wallace.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14338541

>> No.14338888

>>14338541
where is this from?

>> No.14338900
File: 263 KB, 764x551, wojak playing chess with himself.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
14338900

>>14337703
Mental illness needs to stop being regarded as "person did bad thing, must punish them" and instead be regarded as "we need to help this person before they even do the bad thing."

>> No.14338914

>>14338900
>thinking that modern society has any idea what "help" even means
>thinking that 99% of "mental illness" isn't just failure to adapt to a sick society

>> No.14338917

>>14338541
i've seen this image multiple times an as far as i'm concerned dfw never actually said any of this

>> No.14338922

>>14338888

It's a parody, and holy shit that wasted get.

>> No.14339242

>>14337694
aren't we all?

>> No.14339687

>>14338070
Of everything, this made me lose respect. Guy can have several guns in just about any state. Fucking pathetic.

>> No.14341292

>>14338917
he one time made a comment one time, regarding the murderously-pleasurable film in IJ that we will soon enter a world with VR porn whihc is something we need to take seriously as a similarly addictive and immobilizing drug

also I guarantee none of that shit with Mary Karr ever happened. working in a law firm I can tell you many MANY women go around touting lies to make themelves famous. not saying DFW was perfect or a gentleman or what have you but stalking children is actually incredibly serious and if she could have proved it even a shade this wouldve been a serious case.

>> No.14341307

>followed my son age 5 home from school
What was a 5 year old doing walking alone in a country full of white people who are more prone to predatory behaviour

>> No.14341317

>>14338914
>thinking that 99% of "mental illness" isn't just failure to adapt to a sick society
Is this how you people cope with being completely broken shitbrains?

>> No.14341320

>>14338914
this
easily 90% of mental illness, especially depression, anxiety disorders, and schizotypal disorders are just natural reactions to spending 8 hours a day holed up in a cubicle with minimal social contact and then going home to minimal face-to-face social interaction after that

>> No.14341468

>>14341307
based

>> No.14341488

>>14338900
We help them by putting a bullet in their heads.

>> No.14341495

>>14341320
what about depression from NEETdom?

>> No.14341502

>>14338117
Fake butterfly, but the starving artist is a tragedy, and of course plebs will worship a good tragedy. They are degenerate in spirit and can never fully relate to the hero or epic.

>> No.14341503

>>14338492
Damn, I totally understand Wallace now.

>> No.14341579

>>14337694
>Mary Karr, Author @marrykarrlit
>i was abused by a man i had an extremely personal relationship with, and now that he has killed himself, i will expose him for what he truely was!!

>> No.14341588

>>14341579
based mary

>> No.14341598

>>14341502
the hero pities the downtrodden

>> No.14341604

I complete get him. you are not truly in love unless you have stalked her op

>> No.14341877

>>14341604
Kinda how I approach Rupi Kaur. I just long for when she's done touring and she settles down somewhere stable with a predictable or at least discoverable garbage pickup. Heavens, can you even fathom the gold in those lavender scented hefty bags she can only get at the nearby Patel Brothers?

>> No.14341895

>>14337694
does anyone actually believe anything that any woman says at this point? whenever i see an accusation against a man made by a woman, especially in the public sphere, i just assume they made it up at this point, they don't deserve the benefit of the doubt