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for some reason this picture makes me very emotional.

>> No.6330165
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"AND BUT SO" DAVID FOSTER "CHILD" WALLACE.

>> No.6330261

>>6330138
It always stuck me as strange that Wallace lists Carver as an influence, yet went on about a "new-sincerity" movement so much. Carver is about as sincere and affectless as a writer can be, his later stuff especially, when he wasn't being butchered by Lish.

>> No.6330272

the original image is of some dude on facebook talking about how cool he is in the 'video game world'

that image is much sadder, david foster wallace led a privileged and successful life, he had nothing to complain about, and he certainly wasn't a 'loser' in either the literary or the 'real' world

>> No.6330306

I feel like I'm in free fall whenever I think of the poor soul.

>> No.6330345

>>6330272
>committing sudoku in your forties
>not a loser

>> No.6330370

>>6330272
I assumed the OP was relating to the sentiment in the picture, not feeling bad for David Foster Wallace.

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>>6330345

>committing sudoku

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>>6330138
Probably because you're a loser.

>> No.6330460

>>6330306
It was tragic and all, but I'm not all that invested in the guy. Why you put on this charade, anon?

>> No.6330499

>>6330460
Tits or get the fuck out.

>> No.6330507

>>6330460
fuck off
david foster wallace was better than you will ever be

>> No.6330511

>>6330507
>shit is better that vomit

>> No.6330517

>>6330511
fuck off
he was also better than you

>> No.6330627

>>6330507
No doubt.
I wish I could write as well.

>> No.6330681

>>6330165
>"AND BUT SO"
What's with the and-but-so's? I haven't read this book yet.

>> No.6330687

>>6330306
>>6330460
Haha! Great job samefag, you forgot to remove your trip.

>> No.6330694

>>6330507
>>6330517
How fucking dare you talk to Tao Lin that way.
Take it back or I'll make you regret it.

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>the book world

>> No.6332244

>>6330681
it was just a sort of colloquial bent to the way he started off paragraphs and the like -- it's in some interview he did, but spec. which one I forgot, but it has to do with sometimes in conversations the next thing said is a clarification, and an extrapolation, and an example, etc. (hella paraphrase) he was trying to convey that same sorta thing