Why are DFW and Infinite Jest memes?
Why are DFW and Infinite Jest memes?
Ayden Davis
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Grayson Johnson
DFW stood apart, and yet mediated. Communicating to society something as essential as water, and yet being able to do so only from a position of insulation, of disaffection.
He accepted the contrary experience, and drank, with Socrates, the deadly cup.
Dylan Adams
He had a retarded personality. He stalked women. He threw a coffee table at his gf. He's a fucking nut job. He hung himself. Why wouldn't he be a meme?
Austin Moore
please show me your fedora collection
Evan Gomez
Because IJ isn't nearly as well written or insightful as it's fans would lead you to believe. With DFW, all of the themes in his work are expressed in a more concise and organic way in his short fiction.
Juan Myers
I'm going to have to agree with this. IJ became a meme because of it's length, and but so, and end-notes.
Adam Wood
I like the water analogy.
Ethan Martin
And but so the end notes also***
Ryan Fisher
Let's not forget the completely unwarranted marketing campaign. IJ is (among other things) a slick publishing industry product that we would not be discussing today if it weren't for the money involved.
Ryder Hill
Pseud or actually intelligent???