“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
Because that's the way people wished they talked, not the way people actually talk. Also because it's cliche and trite
Christian Turner
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Adam Green
because mistaking analogy for metaphor is something any toadstool huffing vagrant can do.
Robert Johnson
Why does John hate our youth? Why does he want them to fail at math?
William Clark
>Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. This is not true.
Angel Nguyen
There aren't more numbers between 0 and 2 than there are between 0 and 1 you fucking imbecile, this is not how mathematics works
Ian Johnson
That paragraph is a perfect example. He takes all the pseudo-profound shit that most everyone above the age of 15 has already thought about before and twists it around so that it will fit in the context of a shitty love story. If you're in his target demographic, you might just be naive enough to fall for it. If you're older than that, it's just obnoxious. Beyond that, he's just clearly trying to inflate a statement that isn't profound or interesting at all with a bunch of excess shit. There are ten or so sentences in this paragraph when all it needs are two. One could do the trick: "I wish that Augustus Waters had more time". But if you really wanna keep the pretentious "I know what infinite sets are" bullshit I suppose you could slip that in another sentence.
He's also quite prone to the "every character in my book sounds just like me" virus, and John Green just sounds like a pretentious asshole. Suffice it to say that a book about a bunch of pretentious assholes having pretentious asshole problems in their pretentious asshole world viewed through the lens of a pretentious asshole doesn't sound like good reading material to me.
Joseph Robinson
Bro, have you ever even studied set theory? Some infinities are bigger than others, numbnuts.
Cooper Stewart
AAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Every FUCKING day with these STUPID fucking MEMES! I've had it up to HERE with stupid fucking memes! You guys make me want to KILL MYSELF! Is that what you fucking want? For me to fucking KILL MYSELF and write on my suicide note "Cause of suicide: Couldn't handle all of the stupid fucking memes, killed myself"? Because that's what it might as well fucking say!
You guys are literally, L I T E R A L L Y incapable of having even the SIMPLEST of fucking discussion without "MEME THIS, MEME THAT, PROBABLY PINECONE BE CHILLIN, HERE'S A PIC OF INFINITE JEST BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EBIN AMIRITE?" Fucking STOP IT you pathetic fucking FAGGOTS, you are such fucking cancer that I cannot even fathom how you fucking scumbags live your dumb gay lives. Don't you have a job to get to, schoolwork to finish or a family to attend to? Do you literally do ANYTHING productive with your lives other than post stupid fucking memes on the literature section of a god damn anime imageboard? You fucking people make me sick and you're damn lucky I don't have any of your fucking addresses you fucking pieces of shits. I'd spit in your faces.
