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David Foster Wallace Anonymous 11-03-26 18:29:47 No.2732449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGLzWdT7vGc
I am nowhere nearly as intelligent as DFW but I can feel and relate to him so much on an emotional level. His mannerisms, the way he seems to cringe at his own thoughts, the way he tries to gauge the room for others opinions or thoughts. I go throughout my life in an almost constant state of discomfort. I can be talking to someone and working, carrying on a full conversation, but I’m my head I am in a totally different space.

Anonymous 11-03-26 18:39:04 No.2732465

dont look up how his life ended

Glownonymous 11-03-26 19:34:16 No.2732555

>>2732465
wikipedia tells me he simply hanged himself like a normal person

Anonymous 11-03-26 19:35:12 No.2732557

>>2732555
Much like Iris Chang it was a medication issue, his estate should’ve sued for medical malpractice

Anonymous 11-03-26 19:42:14 No.2732577

>>2732449
Absolutely everything about him repulses me

Anonymous 11-03-26 20:01:05 No.2732627

>>2732577
Woman detected

Anonymous 11-03-26 20:41:58 No.2732722

>>2732449
why did a 2013 /lit/ thread teleport into 2026 /leftypol/

Anonymous 11-03-26 21:46:17 No.2732833

>>2732722
Asking myself the same question, seeing his face over and over on the catalog was one of the main reasons I stopped browsing it

Anonymous 11-03-26 21:54:54 No.2732839

>>2732577
Hoes mad (x24)

Anonymous 12-03-26 06:33:58 No.2733530

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I liked him at one point but I can't really go back to DFW's work without immediately putting it back down. Part of it is that as a writer, he's incredibly appealing to young people. This is not a bad thing in of itself, it's just apparent that you have to be in the right time in your life to experience him.
The more glaring issue is him trying to show himself as a moral and good person. Obviously he often writes with ugly self-awareness, but in Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Big Red Son, he's the ethical hero. He has this performance of a feminist, which is completely undercut by what we know about his abuse of women and statutory rape.
He's a good essayist, a hit or miss fiction writer, and a cautionary tale. Also bandanas are gay unless you're a cowboy or antifa

Anonymous 13-03-26 08:43:31 No.2735306

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>>2732722
posting old lit memes

Anonymous 13-03-26 08:44:04 No.2735307

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Anonymous 13-03-26 08:45:03 No.2735308

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>>2735306
>>2735307
moar…

Anonymous 13-03-26 10:01:51 No.2735346

>>2732449
>but I can feel and relate to him so much on an emotional level.
That means you're in love with an actor.
>Part of it is that as a writer, he's incredibly appealing to young people.
>it's just apparent that you have to be in the right time in your life to experience him.
this is way too familiar language.

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