Franzen hinted that some of Wallace's journalism is fictionalized. No kidding! It took a genius to figure out that he exaggerated a few absurd interludes for the sake of humor? So I guess by that standard, Hunter S. Thompson was just a hack? Please...
Bret Easton Ellis also had some abrasive words to say about much of Wallace's work. Though Wallace could never achieve Ellis' swag or flair, it still sounds like a case of sour grapes for both Ellis and Franzen.
David Foster Wallace seems to have been a painfully observant and honest person who would not let his ego get away with any face-saving vanity without documenting it. Did he ever give himself a break for being human?
DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALY WORKS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS TO ATLEAST THREE VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN TWO DAYS. NOW UV STARTED TO READ THIS DONT STOP. TIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST FIVE VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN YOUR DONE PRESS F6 AND LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
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Guy talking about Celebrity cruise lines one of the more reputable cruise lines operating out of south florida. WOW. And people wonder why artists are worthless and retarded.
anybody questions the suicide?he was clearly criticizing the system and we all know what happened to people like that,this guy is smart enough to know suicide is not a solution,and he doesn't seem to have any problems especially that he was trying to solve other peoples problems
this nattering is such bullshit. the guy was--or is or whatever--a really great writer. getting hung up on his death, or his depression, or any other afflictions--that's just shortsighted. just appreciate his work, and if you don't like his work, don't watch the video.
Lol if you deceived yourself into thinking you actually enjoyed the lame shit he was reading in that video. The way the audience laughed when they didn't even understand the humour just killed me.
Skip to the interview section if you want to get anything out of this youtube. Don't waste your time.
@Intelectual95 Your pretentiousness eclipses any possible intellectual experience you think you have and therefore causes your screenname to be a misnomer for no one except David Foster Wallace and the audience knows how they felt in that time and situation and to assume you know better by watching it on youtube years after the fact is almost hilarious in itself. If you actually knew anything about DFW and his so called 'humor' you would know that humor was not his intention and it only (tbc)
@Intelectual95 Only the interpretation and projection of any one view onto his words. He said that Infinite Jest was written to be a sad story and when people went to him talking about how funny it was he was surprised.
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I don't rate David Foster Wallace very highly as an author. I think he probably killed himself out of desperation to be considered a genius - and after all, only geniuses kill themselves!
I'll be happy in 50 years time when his work will be forgotten.
@420dogowner I wish I could take your comments seriously enough to take the time to present an equally serious rebuttal, but alas, you're opinions are so pathetic that the only thing worth saying is: "You're pathetic."
I wish I could hug someone who loved DFW as much as I did, any of you people here, who are watching this video. Because in the end after trying to figure out why this wonderful man had to leave this earth, the place my emotions lead to is just pure sadness. If a man who was so brilliant and so right couldn't bare this world...what hope to the rest of us have. *hug?*
@brothamouzoune I give you a hug. I feel the same way. There are a couple of people who left life because they were too sensitive to handle the cold heartedness of so many. And it's those who are so sensitive, too sensitive to handle humans, who animals and humans need so desperately to stay.
I kind of wonder if Petra the Slovenian cabin maid has heard this. It is feasible that someone who once worked for that cruiseline company in 1995 heard this and alerted her to it. It would have to have been translated of course. I'd be flattered if he'd written this about me!
@goldsmithstudent - you should be more carefull when adding something like this. its obvious you dont know shit or, if you do, its clear you got it wrong. PS;: I suposse you dont have any ego. yeah. that´s clever.
Truly genuine and genius individuals, oftentimes, have an impossible time trying to dumb down and be disingenuous to societal standards, and they become overly-stressed & depressed. Rather than wishing to change who they are as it is their entire soul, existence and being, they sacrifice themselves.
It's maybe best not to make any conjecture at all on DFW's 'illness'. It would be more respectful to pass over the subject and respect the fact that nobody knew his mind better than he did. Best to recall him as he was and not o canonise him or see him as a victim. thank you for this wonderful video from this amazing book.
I only found out about DFW after buying a copy of Infinite Jest the other day (after hearing it's a notoriously difficult book to read and me somehow taking that as a personal challenge) and after reading 30 or so pages I decided to do a bit of investigating and discovered that this guy completely destroys my sense of humor and is now one of my favourite people.
I just finished reading Infinite Jest, and it taught me that we as human beings are all damaged to some degree, and the sooner we learn this, the more easily we will move among others. I wish this realization would have helped DFW. R.I.P.
I think Sartre would believe it, simply another thread of brillance David weaves seemingly effortlessly in his writting. I'm hesitant to say anything concrete about such a dynamic artist. Part of his genius is his ability to translate the depth of his self conscious to the point that his reader begins to carry the weight of each word he writes along with him.
The Pale King's smidgens are already awe-inspiring.
".. to care about people, and to sacrifice for them day after day in myriad little unsexxy ways day after day. That is real freedom." Great quote from dfw.
I just heard about DFW a few days ago. I know, I know.. I'm behind. Especially seeing as Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors (someone who is in the same vein/style as DFW). He is a very talented author, though.
The opposite happened to me. I discovered Vonnegut after having been a student (and fan) of Dave's while I was in the graduate program at Illinois State.
The name is Frank Conroy, and he is the famous writer who authored Nadir's cruise pamphlet. Read the story (A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again) its quiet entertaining.
This is a very funny essay, I love DFW but sometimes it bugs me a little how he augments his talents of non-fiction descriptive and ironic writing with clearly invented, quirky little asides to make things more outlandish
I sure wish that a person knowing something about how much he is loved and by so many could have had some kind of impact on how much value a person puts on their existence in this world, thereby being able to somewhat valiantly overcome the heinousness of the disease that prevented him from seeing the love that was i.e. there for him in this world!
I love you man, and everything you wrote and I miss you every single day! and i will always wish to have been able to have just 1 convo with you!
@thebirdful1 What's up with this stigma of people who commit suicide being "cowards"? If most people knew how it feels to become an introvert and really contemplate the nature of humans/society, or to grow up in terrible conditions, they wouldn't run their mouths about people who commit suicide being cowards. Life can be depressing, and I certainly don't value "bravery" over characteristics such as intelligence. If I was surrounded by terrible humans for my entire life, is living being brave?
@TheFragile89 I agree completely. And you're right, that is ironic, because people choose to gain happiness by passing judgment over something they are afraid to explore. Cowardice, as you put it.
dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush's name wll appear on the screen n big letters ths is so scary cuz it actully wrks ths really wrks
'm really sorry, but these things freak me out sooo much!
dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days nw uv startd readn this dnt stp this is so scary snd ths ovr 2 5 vids in 143 mins when ur done press f6 nd ur crush's name wll appear on the screen n big letters ths is so scary cuz it actully wrks ths really wrks
Don't laugh at this! Just do it Start thinking something you really really want cause this is astounding the person that sent this to me said their wish came true 10 mins after they read the mail so I thought what the heck You have just been visited by DrSuess's Cat in the Hat. He will grant you one wish Make your wish when the count down is over 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 MAKE A WISH Send this to 10 videos within the hour you read this. If you do, your wish will come true
Apparently Wallace's videos attract other cleverer-than-thou people, too! You can't find a "sign" of circular logic; you've either found a logical argument which is circular, or you haven't.
He explicitly said at the beginning that he was commissioned to write about these events; he didn't choose to as if he were choosing a subject for great literature. Apparently, you can look to Infinite Jest for that.
p.s. thank's david, and UC for have'n him, and the channel here to share with us
came back a year later, because i relized my favorites had you missing, and people still are seeing and talking around the virtual water cooler of your work in all this time
What he's doing is conveying the sort of internal monologue that I tend to have about these kinds of annoying cultural phenomena, but ultimately, why write about it in a way that suggests you take it seriously? Why is this sort of stuff praised as great literature? It does not provide much depth or real insight into more interesting human problems. Why all the hooplah? It's "cool," fashionable garbage for the cleverer-than-thou.
hehehe, so fucking agree with some of your points.
felt like that could so easily have been myself up there.
honestly main difference between you and me when compared to him; is HE DID WRITE IT, where i been to busy going on doing other things else where
so i guess maybe it boils down to mainly, its just a relief, sort'a of a time out from things, and a trip down another road in life, in the events I would of witnessed and things i would've done, if i was in his shoe's
Have you read Infinite Jest? Be honest, because if you haven't then you need to stop blowing your load all over the comment pages of beloved authors. The man was a genius, and this book is JUST for fun.
Who said this was great literature? It's from a collection of non-fiction essays written for magazines and papers. It's wonderfully written ENTERTAINMENT.
Read Infinite Jest if you want to know why he should be taken seriously. A book that was fussed over by every literate, "cool" "fashionable" 20-something in the 90s, and literally was not CAPABLE of suffering because of said treatment. It's a great book written by not just a great writer but a significant writer.
I like DFW, but come on--why give this performance, and so many others like it, as though the content is important and significant? DFW is self-important and either unaware of or unconcerned with more important worldly phenomena. Who cares about a baton twirling contest, ultimately? It's childish, mean-spirited, cutting commentary, indicative of a writer who enjoys poking fun at something without wanting to understand it more deeply from an insider's perspective.
Thanks you for posting this, it's really excellent. I miss that man I dunno at all. I wish he'd gotten some fame in France, I might have discovered him truly before.
it would have been interesting to see Wallace as a philosopher.
It's not fair that some people can effortlessly absorb and translate knowledge ad infinitum into fiction. It really requires certain personalities and brains that aren't available to everyone. He was truly a great writer and neurotically detailed storyteller...
no no no no.....it's not debatable....his logic is clearly circular, just like hunter s. thompson. Why do you think these too killed themselves? They were stuck in a hamster wheel in their brains. No release spiritualy. All drugs and no hugs.
second, depression is often a neurological mis-networking, not just a lack of positive reinforcement, like "hugs"...which by the way, was a cheeky thing to say, nimrod, the poor man battled depression his whole life, which seems to indicate it was beyond his control and nothing "spirituality" could eradicate
Isamright33 is right, you guys. David Foster Wallace's logic was circular for no other reason than because it was circular. There are signs of its circularity just everywhere, which serve to prove the entire matter.
I was just looking on YouTube for bright men and women who have the courage to call out dead writers, and I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to Mr/s. 33.
Don't ever let any one tell you that your compulsive comments on videos you hate don't matter to anyone but you. You matter.
I know his thinking is unhealthy, but reading him and realizing that fact has actually helped me emotionally. And besides, life is circular- flowers, seasons, orbits, the expansion and collapse of the universe- How can you be so dismissive? In some ways, I agree with you, but what does it say about you if you need to piss on graves for validation?
we need to take drugs, to offset the bullshit thrown at our views when we see things in how they are, and circular is from weve conceptualized in a understanding to know whats right and will keep going back to whats right, over doing wrong as much as possible
which cycles us back to being depressed because so seams doing wrong will always take you further than whats right,in so many ways in life
the reading is hilarious, im currently reading Infinite Jest. Wallace was a great writer, his use of Mario Incandenza (my favorite character) as a sort of less-clever comic relief in comparison to his prodigiously athletic brothers Hal and Orin is very funny.
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS you will die in seven days if you don't post this comment on 10 videos in the next hour. if you do, tommorrow will be the best day of your life
"It would seem to me that someone in possession of such vast and complex mental abilities would derive more pleasure from immediately conquering an opponent in an actual debate setting. "...
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Okay, I'm just going to come clean now: feminists-eat-cock-slash-cant-block-pixies-i-mean-proxies, this is your mom. I'm worried about you. You left your backpack on the counter this morning, with your meds in it. Get a hall pass, post-haste, and come straight home. I'll make Totino's Pizza Rolls. You can have a friend over, but just one. Why don't you invite that nice heatherinclover? (I think she likes yew!!) kiss kiss, luv, Ma.
I know you will now focus on the "I've manipulated" you part; you will do this for obvious reasons. However, you will not do this now that I've predicted it; you will do this for obvious reasons.
Rapid cycling's a bitch, huh? "Doh-dee-doh-doh-I'm a f-in' genius! Bow down to me! Wait, I'm bored; wait, let's debate; wait, noooooo... hey, I'm flying! Man, I'm smart. I'm a smart-diddly-artist. Bow down to me! Truckers, yer all just truckers; or, uh, imbeciles... yeah, that's right! Hey! lookit me, I'm the next DFW cuz i'm the smartiest-doot-da-doot-artyest...
You will now take your pants off and run down the street naked. You will do this for obvious reasons. However, you will not-NOT do this now that I've pre-predicted it; you will not-NOT do this for obvious reasons. You are now under my command. Hey, this is fun. Will you marry me?
Swearing is not a form of expression. When we use strong language, we use it for a moment and cease its use when the particular moment is gone. What distinguishes swearing is its habitual use, its substitution for real thought. It is a coarse form of throat clearing, and it coarsens one's language and thus one's thought. Its use as a cultural identifier doesn't make up for its considerable downsides.
Essential? Well, while certainly beneficial to both above mentioned concepts, to suggest that it is essential would imply that you believe a loss of vulgarity would ultimately mean the loss of a particular language in its entirety. That is, unless you were refering to the effectiveness of communication via language, which is in fact the main function of language. However, you should perhaps designate between the instrument itself and how well it performs its function.
Regardless of how high your IQ may be, you will only do more harm to your reputation as an intellectual in the eyes of others by resorting to the type of tactic employed here. Mudslinging is a move often seen as juvenille, to be used in only the most precise of circumstances that warrant it, for it carries the extremely high risk of portraying an individual as not being able to stay on point, unable to form valid counter-points to defend their position in a debate...
Again, my intelligence is beyond your comprehension. Do you honestly believe there is--as far as universal truth and knowledge, not information, are concerned--anything you know that I do not? If you would like lessons on/in reality, feel free to ask me anything you want. But do not sit at your computer under the impression that you are educating me. I am a cognitive God. I have never once met a person superior to me. I am as multi-faceted and complex as hundreds or thousands of people combined.
So...in an effort to prove that you do in fact possess a mentality superior to that of the rest of humanity, you...soup up your mudslinging in an attempt to intimidate, as opposed to actually proving that you actually do have great cognitive ability by offering something that has actually bearing on the issue at hand... Hmmm...I detect a flaw in your logic.
Interesting, considering my logic is on the level of Plato and Wittgenstein. Why should I debate with you? Honestly, I don't care if you believe me or not. My IQ isn't contingent upon your belief in it. I will not argue with you about language. You are free to believe whatever you want. Moreover, you don't impress me; I will not go to rhetorical war with someone so beneath me cognitively--it's pointless, I can derive no satisfaction from it. I enjoy the attention ur giving me--I've manipulated u
It would seem to me that someone in possession of such vast and complex mental abilities would derive more pleasure from immediately conquering an opponent in an actual debate setting.
And now I am bored. Ironic though, how someone who believes vulgarity isn't essential to language is on the virtual space of a man who embraced obscenity with such passion.
I can certainly understand the allure of taking up such a position. It's remote, allowing you to cast predictions of what you believe would be the end result of a debate without ever having to actually deal with that margin of possibility that the odds might turn in a way you had not predicted. However, those who are drawn to this tactic are often blinded by the above mentioned allure, unable to gain a third-person perspective by which they may objectively see the crippling effects it has on...
I agree. However I percieve you as a person analogous to a religious lunatic, or rather, a religious imbecile, and I know for certain that you will never concede that you are wrong. Moreover, the 500 character parameters are too restrictive for me to completely shut you up to the point where your only recourse will be "it's my opinion--you can't disprove opinion." I'm glad you enjoy talking to me so much, however, I only enjoy hearing myself talk, and that is the only reason I'm still typing 2u.
Opinion tends to arise from a construct of logic grafted upon a foundation of observations. Granted, in the end, the opinions rendered may prove to be ridiculously far-fetched and destort the initial meaning of those observations, but the real point of concern is the chain of logical reasoning that unites the two. Opinions may be changed if one's logic is proven to be faulty. I would be more than happy to admit I'm wrong, if you can first present to me the problems with my stance.
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Dude, I'm a genius. Bow down to me; you don't deserve to talk to me. I'm sorry your IQ isn't above 160 like mine, but maybe you can be a truck driver if you try really really hard?
But I heart yew, I rilly, rilly do. C'mon, let's be friends. You could tell me how smart you are while I let you ride in my big truck. I could give the commencement speech at your Jr-Hi graduation: "We have brains in our heads! We have feet in our shoes! We can steer ourselves any direction we choose!" Snap! I just quoted Dr. Seuss, cuz I'm smarter than your mom. I'm prolly smarter than you, too; see, while you wanna be the next DFWallace, DFW wanted to be the next ME! and, Medzzz...
whooooooo... this is the ghost of DFW speaking... whooooooo... listen, I was kind of a good guy in your realm, but here in the afterlife, I'm one badass mofo, and you're starting to kind of piss me off. I took myself out; I can take you out too. By the way, who's wittgenstein? Ho-ho-ho, that was good; I needed a belly laugh. Now, go along, grasshopper. Go write about LED lights and piss-filled OJ containers. yawn. I need a nap. it fuckin' better be at least eternity. whooooooo...
LOL. What a lack of a life you must have--making an account especially for me. Jeez you're pathetic. Are you supposed to be funny? Do yourself a favor: open a dictionary and look up wit. You're clueless. P.S. DFW wasn't even close to as smart as I am. P.P.S. Your attempt at creativity makes my creative genius sad. Have fun at w/e community college you're bound for.
LOL? LOL??? You LOL'd me? Seriously? You didn't like talking to the ghost of DFW? Are you saying it wasn't as good for you as it was for me? But... but... I thought we had a connection. I even made a special account, just for you.
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P.S.S.S.S.ss I didn't mean to make your creative genius sad... but you have wounded me in ways I'm not sure you'll ever fully comprehend. My life as I knew it before - droll, waggish, keenly perceptive, cleverly apt, cunning, sagacious - has ended, and I am left with... emptiness. Deep, desolate, faggotty emptiness. Now I suppose I'll just have to drive my great big truck back to the community college I skulked out of and find someone nicer to play with. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff.
who the fuck are you to attempt to justify your pathetic longing with obviously spurious statements while wanking yourself into oblivion whilst others fail graciously with having said a damn sight more than you ever will?
I am God. Who the fuck are you? A sad sad poser who feigns intelligence through pseudo-bombast and pretentious diction, e.g., "whilst," "damn sight more[sic]." LOL. You want to play rhetorical games? Bring it, bitch. I'm a genius. You're nothing.
He sat up. An alarm clock blinking in LED red what all alarm clocks blink when they're blinking. An orange juice container only 1/4 full with urine. Rinds of oranges lying near and not so near to the unorthodox piss receptacle. Light banging on the closed blinds at irregular intervals. Must be cloudy today. I bet it's like 11 A.M. It fucking better be at least 11 A.M.
Did you stay home on Christmas Eve to argue with a stranger? It's like your fly is open and no one is telling you. For God's sake man, go hug someone. Go tell someone you love them. Life is too short, young Wallace.
Love? What is that? Do you know what love is, exactly? I do. I wonder what you think it is. I wonder if you believe in altruism too. Plus, hi, I'm Jewish. Life isn't too short. Life is far far too long, and the good parts terminate far too quickly; and you don't even know they are the good parts until you're knee deep in a long stretch of shit. (I've never used "and" proceeding a semi-colon, but DFW does it.)
P.S. And like Wallace's Ken Erdedy, if you've read Infinite Jest, I'm not a hugger.
We all know what love is. Everybody knows that expecting love in return for love given does not invalidate love. Your not the only person around here who thinks of the nature of these things. Don't get caught with your pants around your ankles, doofus.
There is something peculiar in your idol worship of DFW. Why would someone like yourself, a genius, a beacon of light and reason, an intellectual giant nonpariel...why would you settle for being the next DFW?
Is that your fate, young man; to be derivative, to be a glorified parrot that only knows what DFW has taught you, or do you understand real genius, which has no parameters, which looks to no man for its measure?
Please, don't cut yourself off at the knees: You are not the next anything.
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DFW and I share a similar subversive style--that is all. If these comment boxes allowed more than 500 characters, you would know by now that I plan to surpass DFW in every regard. You know nothing of genius. Also, idiot, in an attempt to appear intelligent, you used a semi-colon incorrectly. I AM THE NEXT DFW; you are nothing. P.S. Every genius looks to other men for his measure. What meaning does any measurement have if it is wholly isolated? Maybe you shoud stick to hockey and trees, eh?
Franzen hinted that some of Wallace's journalism is fictionalized. No kidding! It took a genius to figure out that he exaggerated a few absurd interludes for the sake of humor? So I guess by that standard, Hunter S. Thompson was just a hack? Please...
Bret Easton Ellis also had some abrasive words to say about much of Wallace's work. Though Wallace could never achieve Ellis' swag or flair, it still sounds like a case of sour grapes for both Ellis and Franzen.
TheChap36 1 month ago
Has there been a radical change in volume? Hello.
pingguo2 2 months ago
wish he was here.. I kinda wanna go on a date with him
TheCynthiaCook 2 months ago
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David Foster Wallace seems to have been a painfully observant and honest person who would not let his ego get away with any face-saving vanity without documenting it. Did he ever give himself a break for being human?
urbancavewoman 3 months ago
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urbancavewoman 3 months ago
@ddsspeccies there is a discussion on reddit about this, which is why I wound up here,by way of a DFW quote
PtAltmVansanTarr 3 months ago
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DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALY WORKS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS TO ATLEAST THREE VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN TWO DAYS. NOW UV STARTED TO READ THIS DONT STOP. TIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST FIVE VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN YOUR DONE PRESS F6 AND LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
grimmieadmirer96 4 months ago
Hysterical Realism : David Foster Wallace
samadhist 4 months ago
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Here's an article that offers a much different view of dfw: exiledonline[DOT]com/david-foster-wallace-portrait-of-an-infinitely-limited-mind/
KillBill2020 6 months ago
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KillBill2020 6 months ago
13:09 - 15:43
dennisdarkwah 6 months ago
anyone know where i can watch the full version of the interview that comes up around 9:00?
TommyTomato93 6 months ago
Friendly man. Boring speech.
MrJeanSarkozy 7 months ago
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Guy talking about Celebrity cruise lines one of the more reputable cruise lines operating out of south florida. WOW. And people wonder why artists are worthless and retarded.
gregpphoto 7 months ago
@gregpphoto you don't understand
Frankizzia 6 months ago
@Frankizzia Do you understand it?
gregpphoto 6 months ago
@gregpphoto I think so.
Frankizzia 6 months ago
anybody questions the suicide?he was clearly criticizing the system and we all know what happened to people like that,this guy is smart enough to know suicide is not a solution,and he doesn't seem to have any problems especially that he was trying to solve other peoples problems
nour4lina 7 months ago
this nattering is such bullshit. the guy was--or is or whatever--a really great writer. getting hung up on his death, or his depression, or any other afflictions--that's just shortsighted. just appreciate his work, and if you don't like his work, don't watch the video.
ben030103 10 months ago 2
Lol if you deceived yourself into thinking you actually enjoyed the lame shit he was reading in that video. The way the audience laughed when they didn't even understand the humour just killed me.
Skip to the interview section if you want to get anything out of this youtube. Don't waste your time.
Intelectual95 1 year ago
@Intelectual95
your username pretty much sums up what a pompous ass you are.
skulleton 1 year ago 4
@Intelectual95
also, how the fuck do you like trolling all the stuff I enjoy? haha.
skulleton 11 months ago
@Intelectual95 Your pretentiousness eclipses any possible intellectual experience you think you have and therefore causes your screenname to be a misnomer for no one except David Foster Wallace and the audience knows how they felt in that time and situation and to assume you know better by watching it on youtube years after the fact is almost hilarious in itself. If you actually knew anything about DFW and his so called 'humor' you would know that humor was not his intention and it only (tbc)
alanaisaac5 11 months ago
@Intelectual95 Only the interpretation and projection of any one view onto his words. He said that Infinite Jest was written to be a sad story and when people went to him talking about how funny it was he was surprised.
alanaisaac5 11 months ago
R.I.P.
PegDowncom 1 year ago
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I don't rate David Foster Wallace very highly as an author. I think he probably killed himself out of desperation to be considered a genius - and after all, only geniuses kill themselves!
I'll be happy in 50 years time when his work will be forgotten.
420dogowner 1 year ago
@420dogowner Before making such dim, ignorant statements, how about reading something he wrote?
jrostby 1 year ago
@420dogowner I wish I could take your comments seriously enough to take the time to present an equally serious rebuttal, but alas, you're opinions are so pathetic that the only thing worth saying is: "You're pathetic."
Smoochy44 1 year ago
I miss him :(
ex0rdium 1 year ago
I wish I could hug someone who loved DFW as much as I did, any of you people here, who are watching this video. Because in the end after trying to figure out why this wonderful man had to leave this earth, the place my emotions lead to is just pure sadness. If a man who was so brilliant and so right couldn't bare this world...what hope to the rest of us have. *hug?*
brothamouzoune 1 year ago 17
@brothamouzoune *hug*, friend.
CastleRockFan 1 year ago 4
@brothamouzoune we love,therefore we will survive
mdlman583 1 year ago
@brothamouzoune Maybe he couldn't bare this world BECAUSE he was so brilliant...?
silentpilot10 1 year ago
@brothamouzoune I give you a hug. I feel the same way. There are a couple of people who left life because they were too sensitive to handle the cold heartedness of so many. And it's those who are so sensitive, too sensitive to handle humans, who animals and humans need so desperately to stay.
KennyReddwooddforest 1 month ago
@brothamouzoune HUG. You are not alone, friend.
iamnotron2007 2 weeks ago
For those interested, both articles from this video can be read in full here: harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557
Their titles are Ticket to the Fair and Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise.
jeremybjeffery 1 year ago
@jeremybjeffery thank you.
ang7090 1 year ago
I kind of wonder if Petra the Slovenian cabin maid has heard this. It is feasible that someone who once worked for that cruiseline company in 1995 heard this and alerted her to it. It would have to have been translated of course. I'd be flattered if he'd written this about me!
Jimnopody 1 year ago
how do u know that i meant something wrong with Ego? Shows ur stupidity
goldsmithstudent 1 year ago
@goldsmithstudent ok. what did you meant?. when you write one word like that, one cannot infer something else.
jiggda 1 year ago
EGO
goldsmithstudent 1 year ago
@goldsmithstudent - you should be more carefull when adding something like this. its obvious you dont know shit or, if you do, its clear you got it wrong. PS;: I suposse you dont have any ego. yeah. that´s clever.
jiggda 1 year ago
Oh my God this is so awesome!
devinsiegel7 1 year ago
Truly genuine and genius individuals, oftentimes, have an impossible time trying to dumb down and be disingenuous to societal standards, and they become overly-stressed & depressed. Rather than wishing to change who they are as it is their entire soul, existence and being, they sacrifice themselves.
DFW was a true genius and original! RIP DFW!
shadyzz954 1 year ago 2
I have his reincarnation.... pale house
palehousepress 1 year ago
It's maybe best not to make any conjecture at all on DFW's 'illness'. It would be more respectful to pass over the subject and respect the fact that nobody knew his mind better than he did. Best to recall him as he was and not o canonise him or see him as a victim. thank you for this wonderful video from this amazing book.
mormor39 1 year ago 5
dfw is genuine
fiesolo 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading. Incredible.
Parent33w 1 year ago
I only found out about DFW after buying a copy of Infinite Jest the other day (after hearing it's a notoriously difficult book to read and me somehow taking that as a personal challenge) and after reading 30 or so pages I decided to do a bit of investigating and discovered that this guy completely destroys my sense of humor and is now one of my favourite people.
martyrofevil 2 years ago 6
are these from one of his books?
GRIGORIA666 2 years ago
Yup. They're both from "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".
Oceanmachine27 2 years ago
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Yep. Check: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
plasticbratt 1 year ago
he pulls off those glasses well
SlickCat57 2 years ago
I just finished reading Infinite Jest, and it taught me that we as human beings are all damaged to some degree, and the sooner we learn this, the more easily we will move among others. I wish this realization would have helped DFW. R.I.P.
alladinsane63 2 years ago 3
Do you think God was nervous to meet David Foster Wallace?
brokennarcissist 2 years ago 163
No doubt.. Do you think David believes Hell is other people?
alladinsane63 2 years ago 2
I think Sartre would believe it, simply another thread of brillance David weaves seemingly effortlessly in his writting. I'm hesitant to say anything concrete about such a dynamic artist. Part of his genius is his ability to translate the depth of his self conscious to the point that his reader begins to carry the weight of each word he writes along with him.
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TheFragile89 2 years ago
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No, but maybe a little exasperated.
RossSeaker 1 year ago
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Artzineonline 1 year ago
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God IS DFW.
karmacannon 1 year ago
yes, although not anywhere near as nervous as David. :)
EtherealAphorism 11 months ago
@brokennarcissist Whilst I don't believe in God, this is a beautiful and humorous comment.
JayinMovingPictures 6 months ago
The Pale King's smidgens are already awe-inspiring.
".. to care about people, and to sacrifice for them day after day in myriad little unsexxy ways day after day. That is real freedom." Great quote from dfw.
impaulallen 2 years ago
He wasn't the first who critisized society in this manner but he did it ingeniously.
Requiescat in pace. We all miss you...
sdfgdsgfsdfg 2 years ago
I just heard about DFW a few days ago. I know, I know.. I'm behind. Especially seeing as Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors (someone who is in the same vein/style as DFW). He is a very talented author, though.
samashby08 2 years ago
The opposite happened to me. I discovered Vonnegut after having been a student (and fan) of Dave's while I was in the graduate program at Illinois State.
gccristo 2 years ago
RIP--what a brilliant writer he was.
semochka89 2 years ago
Is this from one of his books?
dombrosky1 2 years ago
Yes -- they're both in "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," published by Back Bay Press in 1997.
daschwpierdellevigne 2 years ago
This is really David Foster Wallace, you nitwits.
ppsdrc 2 years ago 4
why would anybody think that this wasn't him? dummies
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Is this realy David Foster Wallace ?
Katzenpierre 2 years ago
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why should this be him?
altair6666 2 years ago
Infinite Jest, Infinite Jest! What about The Broom of the System?
EddieLowFilthSlayer 2 years ago
what is the word at 20:30 - the diaphanous and ...
irishmonkey 2 years ago
Pretty sure it is "the diaphanous and epicanthically doe-eyed Petra"
Epicanthus - a fold of skin extending from the eyelid over the inner canthus of the eye, common among Mongoloid peoples. :)
jfedjrock 2 years ago
Please refrain from using the phrase "Mongoloid" in 2009, thank you.
danhedelstein 2 years ago 2
to watch the coast of Florida recede cinematically ... a la Fran Conroy?
Who is Fran Conroy?
irishmonkey 2 years ago
The name is Frank Conroy, and he is the famous writer who authored Nadir's cruise pamphlet. Read the story (A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again) its quiet entertaining.
u90397 2 years ago
This is a very funny essay, I love DFW but sometimes it bugs me a little how he augments his talents of non-fiction descriptive and ironic writing with clearly invented, quirky little asides to make things more outlandish
ronnie2407 2 years ago
I know what you mean, it frustrates me sometimes too. But at the same time, he wouldn't be the same without it.
doitinasubmarine 2 years ago
I sure wish that a person knowing something about how much he is loved and by so many could have had some kind of impact on how much value a person puts on their existence in this world, thereby being able to somewhat valiantly overcome the heinousness of the disease that prevented him from seeing the love that was i.e. there for him in this world!
I love you man, and everything you wrote and I miss you every single day! and i will always wish to have been able to have just 1 convo with you!
lanerant 2 years ago
He was not a coward. He was a sick man who tried valiantly to beat the disease that eventually took him.
His writing is lyrical, funny, cinematic, and brilliant. Let us show this tender man the respect he deserves. Peace.
thebirdful1 2 years ago 131
@thebirdful1 What's up with this stigma of people who commit suicide being "cowards"? If most people knew how it feels to become an introvert and really contemplate the nature of humans/society, or to grow up in terrible conditions, they wouldn't run their mouths about people who commit suicide being cowards. Life can be depressing, and I certainly don't value "bravery" over characteristics such as intelligence. If I was surrounded by terrible humans for my entire life, is living being brave?
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TheFragile89 7 months ago
@TheFragile89 I agree completely. And you're right, that is ironic, because people choose to gain happiness by passing judgment over something they are afraid to explore. Cowardice, as you put it.
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he took the cowards way out
LimpLoser 2 years ago
You should read Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Werther's views on suicide might open your eyes to how illogical this stance is.
thischarmingman84 2 years ago 8
He obtained more and touched more people during his short life than you ever, ever will.
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Stoned4Life3 2 years ago
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If you keep having to parentheticize the text you're reading, perhaps the text should be revised.
slbiggs36 2 years ago
Q:...
A:...or maybe it's just really rich and wildly creative exposition!
lanerant 2 years ago 4
Are you hideous?
ifyoufly 2 years ago
highly and superlatively so: )
lanerant 2 years ago
hehe
ifyoufly 2 years ago
what a great writer. it's a sad thing that he's no longer around.
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'm really sorry, but these things freak me out sooo much!
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this is pretty funny!
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FrescoAgua 2 years ago
this is great stuff
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harlinesque 2 years ago
Apparently Wallace's videos attract other cleverer-than-thou people, too! You can't find a "sign" of circular logic; you've either found a logical argument which is circular, or you haven't.
He explicitly said at the beginning that he was commissioned to write about these events; he didn't choose to as if he were choosing a subject for great literature. Apparently, you can look to Infinite Jest for that.
toReasonWhy 2 years ago
p.s. thank's david, and UC for have'n him, and the channel here to share with us
came back a year later, because i relized my favorites had you missing, and people still are seeing and talking around the virtual water cooler of your work in all this time
horny4bears 2 years ago
What he's doing is conveying the sort of internal monologue that I tend to have about these kinds of annoying cultural phenomena, but ultimately, why write about it in a way that suggests you take it seriously? Why is this sort of stuff praised as great literature? It does not provide much depth or real insight into more interesting human problems. Why all the hooplah? It's "cool," fashionable garbage for the cleverer-than-thou.
curiousphilosophe 2 years ago
hehehe, so fucking agree with some of your points.
felt like that could so easily have been myself up there.
honestly main difference between you and me when compared to him; is HE DID WRITE IT, where i been to busy going on doing other things else where
so i guess maybe it boils down to mainly, its just a relief, sort'a of a time out from things, and a trip down another road in life, in the events I would of witnessed and things i would've done, if i was in his shoe's
e.g. Douglas Adams
horny4bears 2 years ago
Have you read Infinite Jest? Be honest, because if you haven't then you need to stop blowing your load all over the comment pages of beloved authors. The man was a genius, and this book is JUST for fun.
Ivanschulz 2 years ago
Who said this was great literature? It's from a collection of non-fiction essays written for magazines and papers. It's wonderfully written ENTERTAINMENT.
Read Infinite Jest if you want to know why he should be taken seriously. A book that was fussed over by every literate, "cool" "fashionable" 20-something in the 90s, and literally was not CAPABLE of suffering because of said treatment. It's a great book written by not just a great writer but a significant writer.
thischarmingman84 2 years ago 5
I like DFW, but come on--why give this performance, and so many others like it, as though the content is important and significant? DFW is self-important and either unaware of or unconcerned with more important worldly phenomena. Who cares about a baton twirling contest, ultimately? It's childish, mean-spirited, cutting commentary, indicative of a writer who enjoys poking fun at something without wanting to understand it more deeply from an insider's perspective.
curiousphilosophe 2 years ago
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I h eard he killed himself because he got an IQ of 115 and he wanted to be more smarters?????
Isamright33 2 years ago
God damn, Dave: we're gonna miss you. Thanks for all that you gave us, and kay you rest in peace.
idealtypical 2 years ago 2
That should read "may." This man's work helped save my life, and I'm sure I'm not the only one...
idealtypical 2 years ago
Thanks you for posting this, it's really excellent. I miss that man I dunno at all. I wish he'd gotten some fame in France, I might have discovered him truly before.
Luxsword29 2 years ago
it would have been interesting to see Wallace as a philosopher.
It's not fair that some people can effortlessly absorb and translate knowledge ad infinitum into fiction. It really requires certain personalities and brains that aren't available to everyone. He was truly a great writer and neurotically detailed storyteller...
heartion 2 years ago
problem is he had a drug addiction and his logic was circular.
Isamright33 2 years ago
well, many great writers are or were drug addicts or depressives
and to say his logic was circular seems debatable
heartion 2 years ago
no no no no.....it's not debatable....his logic is clearly circular, just like hunter s. thompson. Why do you think these too killed themselves? They were stuck in a hamster wheel in their brains. No release spiritualy. All drugs and no hugs.
Isamright33 2 years ago
"spiritually"?
first off, what a loaded and nebulous word.
second, depression is often a neurological mis-networking, not just a lack of positive reinforcement, like "hugs"...which by the way, was a cheeky thing to say, nimrod, the poor man battled depression his whole life, which seems to indicate it was beyond his control and nothing "spirituality" could eradicate
heartion 2 years ago 2
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Well listen to this guy talk. He sounds like a whiny bitch. He didn't have enough umpfffff in his step. Too morbid. Sign of circular logic.
Isamright33 2 years ago
Isamright33 is right, you guys. David Foster Wallace's logic was circular for no other reason than because it was circular. There are signs of its circularity just everywhere, which serve to prove the entire matter.
I was just looking on YouTube for bright men and women who have the courage to call out dead writers, and I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to Mr/s. 33.
Don't ever let any one tell you that your compulsive comments on videos you hate don't matter to anyone but you. You matter.
giantpandaofdeath 2 years ago
I know his thinking is unhealthy, but reading him and realizing that fact has actually helped me emotionally. And besides, life is circular- flowers, seasons, orbits, the expansion and collapse of the universe- How can you be so dismissive? In some ways, I agree with you, but what does it say about you if you need to piss on graves for validation?
Ivanschulz 2 years ago
mmm drug addiction and circular logic...
heres insight on why
we need to take drugs, to offset the bullshit thrown at our views when we see things in how they are, and circular is from weve conceptualized in a understanding to know whats right and will keep going back to whats right, over doing wrong as much as possible
which cycles us back to being depressed because so seams doing wrong will always take you further than whats right,in so many ways in life
possibly; hence its a 'slice of life'
horny4bears 2 years ago
What you just described is also known as being within the body of the christ in christianity.
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the reading is hilarious, im currently reading Infinite Jest. Wallace was a great writer, his use of Mario Incandenza (my favorite character) as a sort of less-clever comic relief in comparison to his prodigiously athletic brothers Hal and Orin is very funny.
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WolfHeraldofLight 3 years ago
"It would seem to me that someone in possession of such vast and complex mental abilities would derive more pleasure from immediately conquering an opponent in an actual debate setting. "...
quite the opposite, Willowville.
jdubyadubya 3 years ago
very funny
skierguy1389 3 years ago
,,,
FeministsEatCock 3 years ago
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Okay, I'm just going to come clean now: feminists-eat-cock-slash-cant-block-pixies-i-mean-proxies, this is your mom. I'm worried about you. You left your backpack on the counter this morning, with your meds in it. Get a hall pass, post-haste, and come straight home. I'll make Totino's Pizza Rolls. You can have a friend over, but just one. Why don't you invite that nice heatherinclover? (I think she likes yew!!) kiss kiss, luv, Ma.
dfwwassmarterthanyou 2 years ago
I know you will now focus on the "I've manipulated" you part; you will do this for obvious reasons. However, you will not do this now that I've predicted it; you will do this for obvious reasons.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
Rapid cycling's a bitch, huh? "Doh-dee-doh-doh-I'm a f-in' genius! Bow down to me! Wait, I'm bored; wait, let's debate; wait, noooooo... hey, I'm flying! Man, I'm smart. I'm a smart-diddly-artist. Bow down to me! Truckers, yer all just truckers; or, uh, imbeciles... yeah, that's right! Hey! lookit me, I'm the next DFW cuz i'm the smartiest-doot-da-doot-artyest...
Meds help.
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
You will now take your pants off and run down the street naked. You will do this for obvious reasons. However, you will not-NOT do this now that I've pre-predicted it; you will not-NOT do this for obvious reasons. You are now under my command. Hey, this is fun. Will you marry me?
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
May I join this pontification party?
Swearing is not a form of expression. When we use strong language, we use it for a moment and cease its use when the particular moment is gone. What distinguishes swearing is its habitual use, its substitution for real thought. It is a coarse form of throat clearing, and it coarsens one's language and thus one's thought. Its use as a cultural identifier doesn't make up for its considerable downsides.
Lensei 3 years ago
You're dumb. Swearing is essential to language and writing.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
Essential? Well, while certainly beneficial to both above mentioned concepts, to suggest that it is essential would imply that you believe a loss of vulgarity would ultimately mean the loss of a particular language in its entirety. That is, unless you were refering to the effectiveness of communication via language, which is in fact the main function of language. However, you should perhaps designate between the instrument itself and how well it performs its function.
Willowville 3 years ago
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LOL. Are you trying to be intelligent? Retard, my IQ is nearly 200. Stop wasting my time.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
Regardless of how high your IQ may be, you will only do more harm to your reputation as an intellectual in the eyes of others by resorting to the type of tactic employed here. Mudslinging is a move often seen as juvenille, to be used in only the most precise of circumstances that warrant it, for it carries the extremely high risk of portraying an individual as not being able to stay on point, unable to form valid counter-points to defend their position in a debate...
Willowville 3 years ago
Perhaps you should try sticking to the point.
Willowville 3 years ago
Again, my intelligence is beyond your comprehension. Do you honestly believe there is--as far as universal truth and knowledge, not information, are concerned--anything you know that I do not? If you would like lessons on/in reality, feel free to ask me anything you want. But do not sit at your computer under the impression that you are educating me. I am a cognitive God. I have never once met a person superior to me. I am as multi-faceted and complex as hundreds or thousands of people combined.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
So...in an effort to prove that you do in fact possess a mentality superior to that of the rest of humanity, you...soup up your mudslinging in an attempt to intimidate, as opposed to actually proving that you actually do have great cognitive ability by offering something that has actually bearing on the issue at hand... Hmmm...I detect a flaw in your logic.
Willowville 3 years ago
Interesting, considering my logic is on the level of Plato and Wittgenstein. Why should I debate with you? Honestly, I don't care if you believe me or not. My IQ isn't contingent upon your belief in it. I will not argue with you about language. You are free to believe whatever you want. Moreover, you don't impress me; I will not go to rhetorical war with someone so beneath me cognitively--it's pointless, I can derive no satisfaction from it. I enjoy the attention ur giving me--I've manipulated u
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
It would seem to me that someone in possession of such vast and complex mental abilities would derive more pleasure from immediately conquering an opponent in an actual debate setting.
Willowville 3 years ago
Why not try your hand at it?
Willowville 3 years ago
And now I am bored. Ironic though, how someone who believes vulgarity isn't essential to language is on the virtual space of a man who embraced obscenity with such passion.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
I can certainly understand the allure of taking up such a position. It's remote, allowing you to cast predictions of what you believe would be the end result of a debate without ever having to actually deal with that margin of possibility that the odds might turn in a way you had not predicted. However, those who are drawn to this tactic are often blinded by the above mentioned allure, unable to gain a third-person perspective by which they may objectively see the crippling effects it has on...
Willowville 3 years ago
...them. Such effects may only be absolved through participation in an actual debate.
Willowville 3 years ago
I agree. However I percieve you as a person analogous to a religious lunatic, or rather, a religious imbecile, and I know for certain that you will never concede that you are wrong. Moreover, the 500 character parameters are too restrictive for me to completely shut you up to the point where your only recourse will be "it's my opinion--you can't disprove opinion." I'm glad you enjoy talking to me so much, however, I only enjoy hearing myself talk, and that is the only reason I'm still typing 2u.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
Opinion tends to arise from a construct of logic grafted upon a foundation of observations. Granted, in the end, the opinions rendered may prove to be ridiculously far-fetched and destort the initial meaning of those observations, but the real point of concern is the chain of logical reasoning that unites the two. Opinions may be changed if one's logic is proven to be faulty. I would be more than happy to admit I'm wrong, if you can first present to me the problems with my stance.
Willowville 3 years ago
Meds. Meds. Lamictal will help.
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
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Dude, I'm a genius. Bow down to me; you don't deserve to talk to me. I'm sorry your IQ isn't above 160 like mine, but maybe you can be a truck driver if you try really really hard?
CantBlockProxies 2 years ago
But I heart yew, I rilly, rilly do. C'mon, let's be friends. You could tell me how smart you are while I let you ride in my big truck. I could give the commencement speech at your Jr-Hi graduation: "We have brains in our heads! We have feet in our shoes! We can steer ourselves any direction we choose!" Snap! I just quoted Dr. Seuss, cuz I'm smarter than your mom. I'm prolly smarter than you, too; see, while you wanna be the next DFWallace, DFW wanted to be the next ME! and, Medzzz...
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whooooooo... this is the ghost of DFW speaking... whooooooo... listen, I was kind of a good guy in your realm, but here in the afterlife, I'm one badass mofo, and you're starting to kind of piss me off. I took myself out; I can take you out too. By the way, who's wittgenstein? Ho-ho-ho, that was good; I needed a belly laugh. Now, go along, grasshopper. Go write about LED lights and piss-filled OJ containers. yawn. I need a nap. it fuckin' better be at least eternity. whooooooo...
dfwwassmarterthanyou 2 years ago
LOL. What a lack of a life you must have--making an account especially for me. Jeez you're pathetic. Are you supposed to be funny? Do yourself a favor: open a dictionary and look up wit. You're clueless. P.S. DFW wasn't even close to as smart as I am. P.P.S. Your attempt at creativity makes my creative genius sad. Have fun at w/e community college you're bound for.
CantBlockProxies 2 years ago
LOL? LOL??? You LOL'd me? Seriously? You didn't like talking to the ghost of DFW? Are you saying it wasn't as good for you as it was for me? But... but... I thought we had a connection. I even made a special account, just for you.
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
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P.S.S.S.S.ss I didn't mean to make your creative genius sad... but you have wounded me in ways I'm not sure you'll ever fully comprehend. My life as I knew it before - droll, waggish, keenly perceptive, cleverly apt, cunning, sagacious - has ended, and I am left with... emptiness. Deep, desolate, faggotty emptiness. Now I suppose I'll just have to drive my great big truck back to the community college I skulked out of and find someone nicer to play with. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff.
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
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who the fuck are you to attempt to justify your pathetic longing with obviously spurious statements while wanking yourself into oblivion whilst others fail graciously with having said a damn sight more than you ever will?
oringetoe 2 years ago
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I am God. Who the fuck are you? A sad sad poser who feigns intelligence through pseudo-bombast and pretentious diction, e.g., "whilst," "damn sight more[sic]." LOL. You want to play rhetorical games? Bring it, bitch. I'm a genius. You're nothing.
CantBlockProxies 2 years ago
i aren't god, but i'm happy to remain a thorn in the Bastards side till it at least explains the reason for Yow.
oringetoe 2 years ago
Dude, take your meds. Really: they will help to keep you from believing that you can fly (it hurts so much when you land).
Heatherinclover 2 years ago
He sat up. An alarm clock blinking in LED red what all alarm clocks blink when they're blinking. An orange juice container only 1/4 full with urine. Rinds of oranges lying near and not so near to the unorthodox piss receptacle. Light banging on the closed blinds at irregular intervals. Must be cloudy today. I bet it's like 11 A.M. It fucking better be at least 11 A.M.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
at least you're getting your vitamin c
maitlanr 3 years ago
Yes sir. I love my Vitamin C. Were you the person who gave me a thumbs up (+1) on my mini comment-story post?
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
Did you stay home on Christmas Eve to argue with a stranger? It's like your fly is open and no one is telling you. For God's sake man, go hug someone. Go tell someone you love them. Life is too short, young Wallace.
XXNeanderPaulXX 3 years ago
Love? What is that? Do you know what love is, exactly? I do. I wonder what you think it is. I wonder if you believe in altruism too. Plus, hi, I'm Jewish. Life isn't too short. Life is far far too long, and the good parts terminate far too quickly; and you don't even know they are the good parts until you're knee deep in a long stretch of shit. (I've never used "and" proceeding a semi-colon, but DFW does it.)
P.S. And like Wallace's Ken Erdedy, if you've read Infinite Jest, I'm not a hugger.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
We all know what love is. Everybody knows that expecting love in return for love given does not invalidate love. Your not the only person around here who thinks of the nature of these things. Don't get caught with your pants around your ankles, doofus.
kingsburykingsbury 3 years ago
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Hey retard, that's not what I was talking about. "Everyone knows" you should never assume to know what a genius is alluding to, stupid bitch.
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago
There is something peculiar in your idol worship of DFW. Why would someone like yourself, a genius, a beacon of light and reason, an intellectual giant nonpariel...why would you settle for being the next DFW?
Is that your fate, young man; to be derivative, to be a glorified parrot that only knows what DFW has taught you, or do you understand real genius, which has no parameters, which looks to no man for its measure?
Please, don't cut yourself off at the knees: You are not the next anything.
XXNeanderPaulXX 3 years ago
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DFW and I share a similar subversive style--that is all. If these comment boxes allowed more than 500 characters, you would know by now that I plan to surpass DFW in every regard. You know nothing of genius. Also, idiot, in an attempt to appear intelligent, you used a semi-colon incorrectly. I AM THE NEXT DFW; you are nothing. P.S. Every genius looks to other men for his measure. What meaning does any measurement have if it is wholly isolated? Maybe you shoud stick to hockey and trees, eh?
CantBlockProxies 3 years ago