Lit copypasta

Post the best lit copypastas.

(Btw. Im looking for the greg sadler navy seal one)

Bump for Gregory Barrycone Sadler

I stumbled upon this board by chance. I usually watch the others. Anyhow, I saw Infinite Jest here often. At first I didn’t believe the stories. But then I decided to buy it and give it a read. I have now bought all the different covers with Infinite Jest. At first I would read it normally. Then I started reading it from end to beginning. Then I just opened the page and started reading it. Sometimes I read it out loud. When I do that I use different voices. For example I do a yelling voice, or a seductive woman, or I do a documentary voice. I try to memorize parts of the book and would see how much I got right. I usually spend most of my time like this. My family worries about me and tells me there is more to life as Infinite Jest. I just think they don’t understand it. I also read reviews of Infinite Jest and when I read them I make a face you see on those funny David Foster Wallace reaction images. I keep at least one Infinite Jest book to whenever I go (but well, it is not like I go away that much). It is a bummer the book is so heavy but I think it is worth it. I lurk here often but I am too timid to actually post here. I get scared easily and when I do I find comfort in thinking about Infinite Jest. It took a lot of courage to make this post but I just wanted you all to know that I and Infinite Jest are really happy together and I wouldn’t have found out about this masterpiece without this board, so thanks.

Can someone post the J R one about not having to read to post here. I finished that book a while ago and that one is perfect

not a copy pasta exactly, but the OP is one of my favorite screen caps.

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Why even bother faking the image if you're going to do it that badly? That's weird.

Behead All Satans?

Is it?

I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!