>spend 10 years avoiding Wallace because I think he's some final boss of literature >decide to read up on him this week on a whim >he was a literal meme retard >Infinite Jest was B+ at best, same shit done by a dozen other guys in the 20th century except they actually worked out their ideas instead of just being a trendy celebrity with them >Brief Interviews is exact same thing, just read Barthelme and ten other guys instead >only a trendy celebrity because horrendous parody-of-themselves-tier writers like Barth, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Heller, and Franzen greased the wheels for him to be famous >would have been nobody if (also a shit hack totally derivative of DeLillo fuckup moron) Franzen hadn't launched him to fame while at the peak of his own fame >these famous New Sinceritiers didn't even understand him, even HE thought they didn't understand him >unpleasant as fuck, just a weird dude who acquired celebrity status and then killed himself >got mad at people constantly for not understanding his "project", kept getting memed at interviews all the time >admittedly even he, himself, didn't understand depression and addiction >every coverage of his """""""""ideas"""""""" is 90% composed of WASN'T HE QUIRKY??? >SO QUIRKY!!!! >surrounded by yes-man morons (opinionless voids) everywhere >respectable publishers at the time and Zadie Smith sucking his dick all the time >even though no one understood him and only because of his """"""ECCENTRIC""""""" personality they'd scribble down "His ideas come to us as if by revelation. He is a divine god and I want to suck his cock." >literally a meme >literally a retard >just the shitty Dos Passos of a bygone generation
Alright, no more joking around. DFW fanboy people are fucking morons. Joyce, Pynchon, John Green, I kept forgiving and forgiving and forgiving you people for worshiping actual autistic children like these fucks, thinking Suicide Boy was going to be some top secret American suicide like Full Metal Jacket. And it's just more shit. You are actually all morons.
This isn't banter. If you are a DFW fanboy, or a fan of any bandana-wearing cuck, YOU are a MORON
Hudson Baker
i wonder what it's like to be so mad that you type out a whole bunch of quirky nonsense in green quotes
Jose Miller
Agree in full except for the inditement of Pynchon and Joyce, who are both not only excellent but certified by the fact that they are basically worshiped by academics.
DFW is autistic
Noah Harris
this
OP is right about almost everything.
David Turner
That is one rare dfw
Jason Ross
>spend 10 years avoiding Wallace If you're older than 25 I'm inexpressibly disappointed in you.
Daniel Diaz
why do you spend your time posting this meme
why
Christian Morris
Kafka
Nicholas Diaz
Gotta keep the memeory alive
Carson Moore
you guys are too dumb for Infinite Jest, and probably with a short attention span. Don't blame the book.
Jack Peterson
>all these rare Wallaces
Liam Edwards
>muh intellect You're a fool
Connor Morales
This rant is refreshingly genuine and original
Ayden Thomas
I was never particularly impressed by DFW's distinctively plodding, hyper self-aware, neurotic ramblings that pass for fiction.
He had some clever things to say, but they are fogged up by his totally self-absorbed, utterly vacuous personality and cynicism which swallows up and infects every word he writes.
He had considerable grasp of the modes of consciousness in his writing and depicting the outer symbolic shell of thought processes, but all of these talents are lost on just utter dud of a personality. A sort of whisp of flatulance in human form.
Levi Myers
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Mason Young
there's no way you finished infinite jest. you've missed the point entirely.
Dylan Williams
Holy shit he was actually CUTE at one point?
Daniel Young
The thing I like about him is that he is clearly aware of the personality defects that you are discussing and the fact that they warp his writing. It creates a strange recursive process where he becomes self-conscious of his self-consciousness ad infinitum. That doesn't make him a good writer but it makes him a good meme.
Colton Sullivan
>audience pussy
James Davis
>what should I do with my HANDS
Christian Thomas
is that a brown bag in his pants?
Nicholas Wright
Right. But that kind of museum glass oddity isn't the mark of greatness. It's just the mark of a side-show, a one-off curiosity that doesn't stick with you after you consume it.
That's what I got from his writing. Passing stimulation but nothing to take home. It didn't leave me feeling satisfied or touched my magic like some truly electric writing does (eg Rimbaud or Faulkner).
Henry Flores
hes gonna need it for the girl on the right
Nolan Rivera
Which is why to me pic related is a better writer. Can actually show real honest emotion and sentimentality
Levi Garcia
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Blake Rivera
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Adam Rivera
you sound like a YA reader
Kayden Cox
>Bandana wearing cuck
Strong closing argument lad. So you still haven't even read his book, yet you spent hours of your life reading, writing and thinking of him? Sounds like a weird obsession and jealousy you have over a dead man, son.
Elijah Young
How are there this many people replying seriously when the thread about Derrida that op ripped the pasta from is STILL UP RIGHT NOW?
Jordan Rivera
>getting this mad about what other people read
also >10 years avoiding Wallace who the fuck actively thinks about "no I will not read that" for 10 straight years
get it together OP
Grayson Richardson
What book was that off of? The Broom of the System?
Luis Mitchell
Ayyyy
Bentley Long
Yup
Juan Butler
Some retard pours way too much of himself into a book? You call it what you will, to me, it's evidence of a lack of boundaries.
Anyways, I'm frequently annoyed at how long books are and it rarely affects my opinions of them
Isaac Reed
Wow. I really like his look in this pic.
Lincoln Sanders
That wasn't the first one either
Nathan Lopez
Their is a reason why we call shitposting 'cancer'.
Noah Campbell
i like this meme
Nolan Scott
This How selfish and obsessed for attention do you have to be to write a 1K pg book that you need to read twice to get the whole story?
Cameron Gray
Actually, Joyce was most definitely autistic in the best way possible.
Blake Hernandez
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Chase Cook
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Aiden Collins
So is Infinite Jest actually worth reading? I've never bothered because it looks like a mountain of postmodern vomit, but it seems to be very popular on this board
Robert Butler
fucking kek
Cooper Parker
John Green really, really likes it.
Adrian Bailey
fucking alpha m8
Dominic Gonzalez
me on the left
Brayden Johnson
Me on the left.
Hudson Cox
>thomas pynchon is a gay pedophile called it on day one
Sebastian Reed
Day one of what? Your life?
Caleb Morales
>God is a shitposter
Nicholas Rodriguez
that's his wife's son
Carson Murphy
>basically worshiped by academics >a good thing
Ryan Gray
> doesn't know the definition of "literally".
I am more stupid now after reading your post.
Austin Johnson
upvote ;)
Kevin Adams
P.G.O.A.T. On the left
Robert Lopez
You're literally retarded
Joseph Parker
>Infinite Jest was B+ at best, same shit done by a dozen other guys in the 20th century except they actually worked out their ideas instead of just being a trendy celebrity with them
Lemme guess, you don't want to name them here because it will undermine your argument? Fuck off idiot.
Owen Reed
Nuh uh. No, YOU fuck off. Idiot. Haha.
Jonathan Moore
Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Wallace because I loved Broom of the System, Oblivion, and Pale King. To my shame, though, I'd never read Infinite Jest. 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 sincerity of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Bernie Sanders." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Stephen J. Burn’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 Infinite Jest, 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 Infinite Jest. It had surpassed all of Wallace's other works in my estimation. Pale King, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Jest. 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 Jest, 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’!
Adrian Diaz
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Ayden Rogers
>green text >some more green text
do i win at Veeky Forums now?
Noah Lopez
i smell roast beef
Connor Wood
i like this. i like this a lot. im glad this meme is happening
Sebastian Robinson
>all these people not realising this is a pasta
Jaxon Rivera
It's from a Wittgenstein thread that was up a few days ago.
Adrian Sullivan
and i thought /lit was meme free board...
Brayden Anderson
you must be pretty dumb tbqh
Jaxson Murphy
>tfw no qt beret gf
Jack Bennett
>I don't like something people like and I have to tell them how retarded they are! I enjoy reading his books. The fact that it enrages you puzzles me. Is it because you think you write better then him but no one gives a shit about your prose?
Logan Walker
If you didn't know he was literally Vonnegutter tier then I don't know what to tell you. Joyce is the highest possibility of this mindset we have to move away from these authors.