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fuck, I miss him bros

Just finished Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. DFW was more fucked up than I realized. RIP

>> No.14765282

>>14764838
His membership in a rare literary collective required the theatric orchestration of his demise and a retirement of his primary pen name

>> No.14765585

read liveblog

>> No.14765666

>>14764838
he was a notorious woman beater, pedant, and general autist. he's what happens when you let rich white boys extend their adolescence indefinitely. today he would undoubtedly be a redditor.

>> No.14765671

>>14765666
>666
silence satan, you fool

>> No.14765686

>>14764838
oh weird i read it just last week. he was a complicated guy, he tried hard to be a better person. i liked when they talked about his life as an undergraduate

>> No.14765708

>>14765666
t. redditor

>> No.14766513

>>14765585
Based Megheads carrying Gately's torch

>> No.14766521

>>14765666
t. insincere ironist

>> No.14766542
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>>14764838
>Megan, the Earth is yours now. I'll watch skies.
Wait, like, wait wait, so do you, like do I not- am I only responsible for land or do I have land and water?

>> No.14766569

>>14765666
Why does this read like feminist erotica? Do women not hear how they sound?

>> No.14767214
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>> No.14767300

>>14767214
Can't wait.

>> No.14767362

>>14766569
Women like the abuse

>> No.14767376
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14767376

>APRIL 3, 2013
>on some level i am always fantasizing about being on an endless cruise ship and there is no money and it's full of people i like. i think i believe that can happen, on some level, somehow. i have an automatic tendency to 'hitch a ride' on the closest things resembling the cruise ship (a.k.a. 'lack of responsibility') until i can get to the real cruise ship.

NO MEGAN NO WAIT

>MAY 25, 2013
>i want to live in a mansion cruise ship where everyone is happy forever and no has to do anything don't want ever, ever, ever forever

>> No.14767399

Today is his birthday. Would be 58.

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>>14767376
>only to finally realize that after all this time it was the self that was my ship, my soul my mansion

>> No.14767411

>>14767399
I miss you, Professor. I'm sorry.

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Let's put it this way: it wasn't suicide.

>> No.14767475

>>14764838
the Spanish edition of the DT Max bio has an interesting section on David's three summers working kibbutzim

>> No.14767482

>>14767452
rumor is DFW offended twitter's Jack Dorsey and refused to become a bluecheck during the forthcoming Obama era so they had him neutralized

>> No.14767529

i want to write as much per day as you did, Sifu Foster Wallace

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>keep the sacred grammar, anons

>> No.14767559

>>14764838
DFW threads always make me sad and laugh at the same time (thanks to you few /lit/up mofos that understood his work).

RIP big guy, I know it wasn't for fame and glory, but from a sad place that resides in all of us if we feed it.

>> No.14767601

I miss Daveposting

>> No.14767614

>>14767601
The Professor is alive, anon. Have you heard the good news? He has already proofed your manuscripts and annotated them in his Father's publishing reliquary

>> No.14767623

>>14764838
>>>14765759
DFW spent more time in inpatient care to humpty-dumpty his consciousness back together, that anyone who wants to portray him as anything but a person completely undermined and deeply handicapped makes their aggrandizement and climbing transparent.

>> No.14767664

>>14767601
>>/lit/thread/S5854028

this was the best thread there ever was

>> No.14767743

>>14767214
Jesus, what a crock of shit.

>> No.14768112

>>14767743
its fake

>> No.14768223

>>14767664
I made that thread, nice to see people still referencing it

>> No.14768277

>>14767475
DFW went to kibbutz? How old was he?

>> No.14768280

>>14768277
It was the two summers before high school iirc

>> No.14768402

>>14764838
Rest in Literary Legend, Meme Master

>> No.14768427

>>14768277
>>14768280
Silly question, but I'm not American. He was named David but I can't find confirmation of his Judaism. Was he forced to hide his faith?

>> No.14768437

>>14767664
Thanks for this. What a different feel for this board. I assumed it was always a commercially oversaturated bugman prison but it seemed more of a chipper intellectual clique back in 2014

>> No.14768470

>>14765282
Who does DFW write as now? Does he have apostles?

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>>14768470
The Professor has taken an interest in taming the wild automatics of our millennial Ms. Megan

>> No.14768475

>>14768473
They're cute together and I hope Karen Green doesn't mind me saying so.

>> No.14768488

I wish DFW articulated a kind of political world view

>> No.14768494

>>14766569
>Why does this read like feminist erotica?
it doesn't

>> No.14768507

>>14768494
>He manspread then mansplained
>He raised his voice outside of a voter registration drive cheer
>He didn't ghost write my golded Reddit mods "Dreams of my Rapists" metajournal
>He made women generationally removed from him feel pussy tingles that the television ladies say are bad now
Hope someone makes a Reuben of your cock pickled pussy beef, harlot

>> No.14768534

>>14768475
I mind a lil bit, hehe. Ok back to lurking!

>> No.14768541

>>14764838
I try to live every day as if I was your student. I imagine the worst criticisms you'd unhesitatingly deliver and I let them strike me like a flail. Or a Dominas shoeless strike to the scrotum.

>> No.14768547

>>14767664
>>14768437
My life was better in 2014.

>> No.14768549

>>14768507
take yer meds

>> No.14768576

>>14768549
Nah, no thanks. I'll just relax by imagining a slow vivisection of a TikTok influencer. Women screaming relaxes alpha males, you know?

>> No.14768599

>>14768473
Is DFW still in a corporeal form or is Megan using some mystical means of communing with the author?

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>>14768576
>>>/t/umblr

>> No.14768621

>>14768576
What's the most literary way to disassemble a living woman character in a fictional book?

>> No.14768911

>keep the texts safe, mortal Anon
>I'll watch the meaning laden vibrations of air

>> No.14768922

>>14767376
Did she go to Justin Murphy's Based Mansion?

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And pray for the Sincere as we suffer irony

>> No.14769430

>>14768922
Justin's usually around /lit/ but he's on pacific time so we got a few hours

>> No.14769447

>>14768599
He's a wraith.