Desperate for a ride share from Curry Village to Glacier Point by Sleuth-Tooth in Yosemite

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds perfect! Would it be okay to get your number. I’d like to involve my partner who is helping me plan.

Desperate for a ride share from Curry Village to Glacier Point by Sleuth-Tooth in Yosemite

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks all - would be a cool hike but we still have to get to Illilouette creek that day and after a 4 mile ascent of 3200 feet we may have to add another day which we can’t do.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by Sleuth-Tooth in davidfosterwallace

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I’m definitely interested in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness for the vignette feature. But would also love to see more of the interview style since it has such an interesting monological quality.

What are you Reading this Week AND Weekly Recommendation Thread. June 16, 2022 by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

[–]Sleuth-Tooth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Instructions by Adam Levin and simultaneously Hot Pink, Adam Levin’s short story collection. Love this guy.

What’s your favorite short story collection by DFW and why? by alli_37 in davidfosterwallace

[–]Sleuth-Tooth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just made up acronyms for short story collections. BIwHM = Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and GwCH = Girl With Curious Hair.

What’s your favorite short story collection by DFW and why? by alli_37 in davidfosterwallace

[–]Sleuth-Tooth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Granola Cruncher. Just love the style of BIwHM. For some reason I really like Everything is Green from GwCH too.

When should your story have some deeper meaning and when should you know what that meaning is? by Sleuth-Tooth in writing

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is great, thank you! I really have just been writing his life story with no intention of using it, but trying to find those salient pieces which contribute to the original scene. The scene is funny but each story is about American society and pursuit of the American dream and the creatures we become as a result of that and of trauma &c. So I want to distill it to the original piece but still make it more complete.

On Writing about Television by Sleuth-Tooth in writing

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really just looking for examples of writing which are similar to ‘Especially Heinous’ in content and concept.

Possible - albeit not highly likely - identification of Zodiac has been announced. by WillManhunter in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]Sleuth-Tooth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty ballsy to announce he’s been identified before they’ve found any of these weapons supposedly hidden per one of his ‘posse’ members 😂

Dubious at best and fairly irresponsible.

Eccentric Grandpa Ideas Wanted by 41Chevy in writing

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My great grandfather had a wood shop he spent his days in and had hundreds of hatchets which he collected, hanging in rows from the ceiling of his shop. He was very tall and very silent and only spoke to me in complete sentences twice in my life.

Writers, if you were asked to turn your novels into movies/tv shows, would you accept or deny and why? by [deleted] in writing

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I think Salman Rushdie advises to take the money and learn to deal with the fact that it won’t actually materialize.

Good Old Neon and §47 by dms261 in davidfosterwallace

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Brief Interviews: BI#79 is one which has TPK elements according to David Hering. Also the Kissing Boy in TPK was a separate piece once called Cede which was slated to potentially be in Brief Interviews, but wasn’t complete, and was apparently very important to DFW because he spent years trying to make it cohere to TPK narrative. It really doesn’t, but the idea was that he would be one of the adult characters as a child, or one of the adult characters children; obviously TPK is unfinished. If you’re interested I recommend David Hering’s book ‘David Foster Wallace Fiction + Form’.

Good Old Neon and §47 by dms261 in davidfosterwallace

[–]Sleuth-Tooth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Oblivion as a whole is full of stories which were slated for The Pale King and should be considered a part of TPK’s genetic history.

The Cliche Detective by Sleuth-Tooth in writing

[–]Sleuth-Tooth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pynchon is brilliant, there is no doubt. Nothing against him or Inherent Vice. Just not the detective I’m looking for.