I miss him so much

>Lobsters' utilization in ancient times varied, ranging from complete
prohibition by the Jewish religion, to that of epicurean status in the Roman
world.

athensjournals.gr/mediterranean/2015-1-3-1-Spanier.pdf

it's an old conflict

The Pale King had so much fucking potential it could have been even better than IJ. If only he could have stuck it out. I really wish I could understand what was going through his mind during his last week.

Where do I start with him? Some of his essays?

If you really want to start somewhere you can read his brilliant thesis

Knowing what it could've been really gets to me.

Quick rundown?

David Foster Wallace.....he eliminated his map before he finished the Pale King. He was only half way through it. He struggled with depression most of his life...changed meds cause he thought it was effecting his creativity but he spiraled into a particularily terrible depression and killed himself in 2008. He was only in his 40s.

Was he even sincere?

But it was 100% junk information.

I'd rather look at baroque than look at a Picasso.

ten years ago this september lads
i don't want to get really emotional or anything, but when i was an undergrad, infinite jest was the shit. i remember learning about it from my pseud classmates my first semester. i remember getting my hands on that book in late october and finishing just three days before finals started. i still get that pang of nostalgia ripping through my heart every time i see the stupid cloud cover. it's not just of reading but of college of annie of life during the bush administration when i came to age, the terrible music, the film industry dominated by silly comedies, the sincerity of it all. he eliminated his own map for keeps my senior year, and things changed, in my own life, in society, grad school sucked all of the will to live out of me and it honestly seems like the rest of the country followed suit
i know it's silly to connect those things but they always will be in my mind

Can you imagine what he would've written about the like button on Facebook? About the vanity parade that it is Instagram and how people's insecurities work within the social media work frame? Can you fathom Harper's paying him to attend some huge YouTube event and write about his experience? I seriously feel bad he off'd himself. He still had a lot to see and talk about.

DFW's suicide doomed us as a society.

>missing a plebeian

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Read Good Old Neon and realize how (hopefully) unlike him you are, depression-wise

>implying he wasn't a chad

A must listen:

radioopensource.org/david-foster-wallace-chris-lydon/

He predicted VR porn.

infinite jest was pretentious long-winded drivel

>ywn have a relaxing night with DFW talking about books and society
>ywn laugh with him
>ywn get to shake his hand
>ywn get to shitpost on Veeky Forums with him

(You)

Good post, never heard this interview before

Those shoes are fire

You can hear the pain in his voice. I don't think he was ever cut out for the spotlight

Would he have voted Clinton or Trump?

he would have been a pro-romney never trumper, remember he supported bush the first, and mccain...he was not a radical thinker, which is why he was promoted to be the "voice of a generation" cuz having some anarchist anti-globalization hippy just wouldn't do

youtube.com/watch?v=9f-Q9GHmJGc

>railing is more in focus than the actual portrait subject
lol memeblad faggot lrn 2 photo.

>He predicted VR porn.
Bethke wrote an entire novel on this and related subjects a year earlier in 1995.

who the hell didn't know vr porn would be a thing, my god man how much of a brainlet do u have to be to be wowed by a pseud like wallace

dude he'd be like 56 now