Was DFW genius? Why’d he commit suicide?

[Anonymous No.17707379]

Why’d he hang himself from hid patio with his hands bound to ensure he couldn’t turn back?

What do you think of his personal library?
https://veritrope.com/david-foster-wallace-personal-library/

[Anonymous No.17707408]

[Anonymous No.17707420]

>>17707379
he got herpes from audience pussy

[Anonymous No.17707427]

>>17707379
>DFW
>genius

[Anonymous No.17707439]

Find a gem in his library and report back
https://veritrope.com/david-foster-wallace-personal-library/

The Mill on the Floss
Commodify You Dissent: Salvos from the Master
The Rise of the Computer State
Briefing for a Descent into ahell

[Anonymous No.17707449]

>>17707379
Don't know much about DFW outside of the shitposting, never intend to read Infinite Jest, but looking through his library is interesting. Seems to be no rhyme or reason to most of it. Here are some interesting ones
>Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor:Collected Works (Library of America edition)
>All The Pretty Horses, Suttree, Blood Meridian
>Players, White Noise, Running Dog
>Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
>Of Love and Other Demons
>Critique of Pure Reason
>Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting
>Money and the Meaning of Life
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
>Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
>Crossing & Cruising: From the Golden Era of Ocean Liners to the Luxury Cruise Ships of Today
>Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)

I'm convinced he would have browsed /lit/ for some reason, seems like he would fit in here just by looking at his shelves

[Anonymous No.17707452]

>>17707408
He looks like a bully while simultaneously resembling a nerd who got his lunch money stolen.

[Anonymous No.17707464]

>>17707379
He'd been depressed all his life. Also he was bright, to be sure, but wanted to be considered a genius--he wasn't: neither in his writing abilities nor in his quantitative one's. And so he also suffered severely from imposter syndrome. It really is sad, not least of which because he was an interesting voice to have around in public. Ultimately his suicide must be viewed as a product of psychosis or as a conscious aggressive act not only against himself, but also against others with whom he had been on intimate terns, namely certain women.

[Anonymous No.17707473]

>>17707449
some more interesting ones
>Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why. True Stories of Miraculous Endurance And Sudden Death, Library Edition
>Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
>The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here
>The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
>Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
>The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess
>Recovering from a broken heart: A companion guide for the journey from suffering to joyful awareness
>The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (Pelican)
>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
>Compassion and Self Hate: An Alternative to Despair
>Beyond Success and Failure: Ways to Self-Reliance and Maturity
>Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Interactive Edition
>Instructor's Manual to accompany Literature

[Anonymous No.17707477]

>>17707439
>DeLillo
>Gibson
>Stendhal
>Borges
He’s got some good stuff in there

[Anonymous No.17707481]

one on the left is hot and her eyes tell of a depressive disorder.

[Anonymous No.17707490]

>>17707477
Problem is they're all in English.

[Anonymous No.17707498]

>>17707449
can't imagine him browsing /lit/. he was an administrative babby, 4chan is antithetical to that.

[Anonymous No.17707499]

>>17707490
Yeah DeLillo and Gibson are better out of English

[Anonymous No.17707509]

>>17707408
the man was ahead of the times by sporting that attack of the clones tee. i wonder if dfw would have dabbled in mlp.

[Anonymous No.17707519]

>>17707379
>annotating a book in fucking red
he was a pseud

[Anonymous No.17707533]

The same reason Kurt Cobain did. Both totally steeped in American popular culture while being utterly disgusted by it.

>One of the most powerful descriptions of suicide I've ever read. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."

[Anonymous No.17707545]

>>17707533
Utterly banal thought, proves my point exactly.

[Anonymous No.17707565]

>>17707533
PS i’m not sure why a few pseudo trolls on this board decided he’s a meme, but they’re dead wrong. He’s as heavy as they come for modernity.
>>17707545
You have no point and are a gay jealous hater pseuderino . Seethe, dilate, cope etc

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17707589]

>>17707379
>Was DFW genius?
No.
>Why’d he commit suicide?
No discernible talents.

[Anonymous No.17707600]

>>17707589
Filtered and >>17707565

[Anonymous No.17707607]

>>17707589
Exactly

[Anonymous No.17707656]

Undergrad communist pussy

[Anonymous No.17708061]

>>17707589
>>>17707589
bitch

[Anonymous No.17708084]

>>17707589

[Anonymous No.17708100]

>>17707379
It is interesting, most of the books are clearly research material for The Pale King, Everything and More and Oblivion. Will be reading some things from this list.

[Anonymous No.17708101]

His medication stopped working and his ideology was not strong and intelligent enough to give him reason to live. Not complicated. Many people suffer in life but if your ideology is broken then you won't endure suffering well

[Anonymous No.17708109]

I'm surprised he did not read Deleuze

[Anonymous No.17708112]

>Was he genius?

He was very intelligent, don't know enough about him to call him a genius but close

>Why'd he commit suicide?

Nihilism

[Anonymous No.17708119]

>>17707533
Tell me again why people think he's a hack? This stuff is really good and thought provoking

[Anonymous No.17708126]

>>17708119
People dislike popular things

[Anonymous No.17708141]

>>17708126
Harold Bloom found him absolutely unreadable,he was basically an editorial house psy op.

[Anonymous No.17708156]

>>17708101
What’s your ideology?

[Anonymous No.17708171]

>>17708141
I wouldn't take the literary criticism from a guy who was incapable of producing it seriously.

[Anonymous No.17708172]

>>17708156
Sucking dick and being gay. It gives me purpose in life.

[Anonymous No.17708207]

>>17708156
Metaphysically the perennial philosophy ala Guenon.
Religiously Orthodox Christian.
Also I'm an amateur bodybuilder.

[Anonymous No.17708213]

>>17708141
Are you 15?

[Anonymous No.17708227]

>>17708172
based

[Anonymous No.17708230]

>>17708207

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.17708238]

Man that’s hard to make heads or tails of without the context of his notes. There’s some pretty good works in there next to absolute trash that I wouldn’t give two seconds to. Then again maybe he knew it was trash and found value in that? It’s hard to tell really. The one Husserl book feels pretty out of place and I have to wonder if he bought it just for the name of the title. As for why he hanger himself, I don’t think any of us could know unless he directly gave a reason. A man’s inner world is a difficult thing and his art need not reflect it accurately. While I’m no fan of his it’s still rather sad when Anyone kills themselves, surely there must have been a ton of internal tension, melancholy and the like within him. A shame.

[Anonymous No.17708268]

>>17708238
Father ass semen. What a stupid tripfag name

[Anonymous No.17708274]

>>17708207
So basically, sucking dick and being gay. Got it.

[Anonymous No.17708309]

>>17708141
Harold Bloom is a glorified cataloguer of literature

[Anonymous No.17708319]

>>17708268
Grow up

[Anonymous No.17708323]

>>17708319
no

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17708335]

>>17708309
A glorious cataloguer of literature

[Anonymous No.17708355]

>>17708274
Homosexuality is a perversion with no artistic or literary merit. It creates malleable, effeminate men easily duped by bad literature and liberal propaganda. The homosexual is the pawn of the bourgeoisie, the capitalists, the liberal, the whole wicked system we live in

[Anonymous No.17708383]

>>17708355
>It creates malleable, effeminate men easily duped by bad literature and liberal propaganda
unlike bodybuilding, the most masculine of endeavors

[Anonymous No.17708409]

>>17708238
I recall that he purposefully put trash on his intro-to-english sylabi with the idea that they would require more work to analyze than more traditionally literary works.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17708411]

>>17708355
Men resistant to their natural malleability are a perversion.
Homosexuality is a rare deviation. There’s no harm in it. Only harm done to them by shaming them, shaming all sexuality. That breeds weird and sometimes deranged fetishes. The prudes are the degenerates.
Yes, state capitalists use these divisions against us all

[Anonymous No.17708412]

>>17707533
wow sad people suicide cos they dont want to be sad not cos they thought death would be fun!

wat a retard, and wtf is with presuming noone on the ground level could understand that jumping out of the building is preferable to burning alive? when i saw people jumping off the WTC i thought "ye id do that too".

[Anonymous No.17708423]

>>17708383
Bodybuilding manifests timeless principles into material reality, it makes men nearly immune to depression and psychological problems, and sculpts our bodies to what they used to be like before the Fall, but it's not the full package by itself that's why you need a strong ideology and spirituality on top of lifting and getting extremely muscular.

[Anonymous No.17708445]

>>17708423
theres some shit to be learnt from body building, not that serious though - bit of discipline, bit of nice feeling seeing your muscles grow, more clear headed because exercise is good for your brain, more confident you wouldn't be instantaneously pummeled into the ground by a meth head - come to think of it, you're right, it is pretty based

[Anonymous No.17708448]

>>17708411
>it's not that I'M a crazed sex fiend with a dick fetish, it's all them prudes what put those degenerate ideas in my head!
are you this skilled at coping from prior experience coping with knowing you'll never be a woman?

[Anonymous No.17708451]

>>17708411
The homosexual embodies the decadence of modern relativism, once his sexual function is undermined he will adopt a worldview that allows it or promotes it as a good , and all such worldviews are deficient of timeless truth and a correct anthropology of man. As such the homosexual is the pawn of the liberals, the capitalists and the pseudo-communist movements funded by capitalists.

[Anonymous No.17708466]

>>17707589
Only based take ive ever seen you make. Any way you’d swing bi for a night butter pie?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17708487]

>>17708448
I do not like dick in the least, anon.
And I am not sex crazed. I don’t get enough. You probably don’t get any though. Poor thing.

>>17708451
No.

>>17708466
>Only based take ive ever seen you make
Happens all the time
>Swing bi
No.

[Anonymous No.17708803]

>>17707499
Unironically true

[Anonymous No.17708812]

>>17708487
Butterfly...I have a pussy. Let’s make a deal.

[Anonymous No.17708815]

>>17707589
>jew
>defends a dead fat jew

[Anonymous No.17708825]

>>17708141
That dude literally only got popular because of 2 verifiably false claims on Harry Potter and JK Rowling. Imagine believing such patheticness.

[Anonymous No.17708829]

>>17707379
>Was DFW genius?
No.
>Why’d he commit suicide?
Because he wanted to.
>Why’d he hang himself from hid patio with his hands bound to ensure he couldn’t turn back?
See above.

[Anonymous No.17708845]

>>17707379
Honestly, it seems like he did it for attention.

[Anonymous No.17709194]

>>17707533
>Caught between fire and the fall
>Doesnt jump because of hopelessness
Eloquently said, but hardly accurate. Being in that situation causes hopelessness, but just like the hopelessness of any other situation, it can be overcome if you're strong enough. I say this as someone thats been caught between the fire and fall, as someone who's life has made death seem preferable, and someone who's been lost in despair so many times that being brought to the edge is a fucking weekend tour. At the end of the day, you weren't strong enough. Your situation might have required you have a different kind of strength than you were expecting, but the result is all the same.
>inb4 "NO YOU JUST DONT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOURE NOT SUPER FAMOUS"
Bite me.

[Anonymous No.17709258]

Just how Mark Fisher killin ulself is not a work of M F theory, DFW didn't hang himself because of *any theme you can identify in IJ etc*

There is a funny reddit post which say: "What would Mark Fisher think about bands like Death Grips or 100Gecs?"

the answer is nothing and it doesn't matter, the man is dead in the ground. The man has left the chat, the man is at the post limit, the thread is archived, you may not respond to this post, etc etc

[Anonymous No.17709326]

>>17709258

this comment gave me major deja vu

[Anonymous No.17709330]

>>17709326
whats the vu to the deja, bb?

[Anonymous No.17709348]

>>17709258
not particularly funny or insightful

[Anonymous No.17709350]

>>17707379
I'm pretty much sure that he tapped on that blone chick.

[Anonymous No.17709366]

>>17707533
You lifted this almost directly from a popular post on Quora, and it's not even an interesting idea

[Anonymous No.17709387]

>>17707464
>wanted to be considered a genius
did he really?

[Anonymous No.17709389]

>>17707379
Apparently he was drowning in pussy too.

[Anonymous No.17709414]

>>17707473
No wonder he committed the sauce on the side! He didn’t have a single good book in his library. Bet he’s never been exposed to the Greeks. Perhaps a copy of the gulag archipelago would have satisfied him enough to live on. Oh well Bucko. Sad!

[Anonymous No.17709420]

>>17707379
i iam laffin at that girl on the right like how can you smile that hard. she is going to beam into another dimension with that expression

[Anonymous No.17709452]

>>17707589
god I hate namefags and tripfags attention whoring fags just end yourself for the benefit of mankind

[Anonymous No.17709544]

>>17707509
that's not from aotc and he would most certainly not have dabbled in a show made for actual toddler girls

[Anonymous No.17709747]

>>17709348
do u wnt a flipin medal retard?

Or are u here for funny moments and insights, like an optimistic female comp lit student at pre-honorz

[Anonymous No.17709758]

>>17709348
I'd certainly think >>17709747you were paying 100k to read this

[Anonymous No.17710467]

i just read big red son, it was funny and insightful
he seems neat

[Anonymous No.17710477]

>>17710467
you seem neat

[Anonymous No.17710489]

>>17707452
Precocious observation

[Anonymous No.17710809]

>>17707533
>>17707464
I wonder how his parents and childhood were

[Anonymous No.17710942]

>has a depression
>still manages to write

[Anonymous No.17711066]

>>17710942
He was pretty heavily medicated, evidently (or else the failure of his meds toward the end wouldn’t have pushed him toward the rope).

He’s a bright guy — certainly more educated and well-read than 99.9999%, if not all, of /lit/. But that doesn’t make him smarter than all of us. And I wouldn’t say he was a genius, at least not as a writer. His own intelligence bogs him down. Half his catalogue just feels like he’s peacocking what he knows. His narrative ability isn’t special.

[Anonymous No.17711194]

>>17711066
/thread

[Anonymous No.17711290]

I like DFW but he was a bit of a pseud and would probably admit to that himself.

[Anonymous No.17711391]

>>17711290
So did he kill himself because of inability to overcome being pseud?

[Anonymous No.17712031]

>>17707379
He’d be canceled by now anyway. He was outed as a sex predator years ago.

[Anonymous No.17712038]

>>17712031
Exactly, stalker who fantasized about killing his female victim's husband.

[Anonymous No.17712076]

>>17707452
He looks like the paid bully from the MDE sketch

[Anonymous No.17712126]

>>17707439
Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting