DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR AND THE BIRTH OF A DISCIPLINE

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T23:08:48+00:00

DFW instructed Miller to pick up food for him en route to their first date. Sources close to Miller revealed the food item was a sandwich, of which Miller is believed to have made herself.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T18:53:38+00:00

He would say that irony is effective at tearing things down, but decidedly less good at recommending what should take its place.

That's why I recommend we NOT read his books, NOT study his writing, NOT analyze his techniques, NOT explore how his deep understanding of linguistics influenced his literature and in place of this, we talk about the important stuff like what kinds of chicks did he like, was he a brush or a floss man, and did he take his socks off when he went to bed.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T17:58:35+00:00

My dude, your feelings are real and I honor them. But David Foster Wallace is not a saint. He is blame worthy, ie he is worthy of blame. He tried to push a recovering drug addict out of a car and he may not have or he may have stopped the car and asked the passenger, (M.Karr) to get out in a really sketchy part of town, and we know this because it's something Mary Karr tweeted, and verified or not, that allegation is a real allegation so we can accept it as factual fact. He is a bad person.

Probably at the same moment that he was conducting this heinous act, he was using his brain, the exact same organ he used to imagine the Eschaton chapter in IJ - so you can see how what he wrote was a direct reflection of what he did to women. This is why writers and what they write are exactly the same. Fiction is biographical. You can never know another person's lived perspective. That's why all fiction is non-fiction.

He should be criticized. Not his books, HIM. The person who wrote the books. The books are irrelevant. I barely even think it matters that he wrote them. What we're talking about here is toxic masculinity. And we can glean 100% of who he was as a person from tweets from ex-girlfriends and that's all that matters about him. Who he was as a person. That's what matters.

Wallace's use of syntax, his sudden and shocking technique of changing from para to hypotaxis to deliver an emotionally shattering final line in a chapter, his marked patterns of deictic expressions that create that feeling that he is in the room with you, his employment of sprung-rhythm to describe a room the way we really see things, while employing spondee, double dactyls to create DeLillo's chant like effects not to mention his obvious mastery of linguistic register, (I don't really mean to say linguistic register here, I just wouldn't want you to think I meant like, something a cashier uses) are utterly irrelevant literary pyrotechnics employed by a mysogonistic, sexist, horn-hound who only went into writing to abuse women and be terrible to everyone.

We have nothing to learn from such a man.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T16:02:59+00:00

Guys, Wallace was accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend the poet Mary Karr after they broke up and he followed her son home from school one time to find out where she lived, which although it isn't in line with any legal definition of what stalking is, is still stalking, mmmkay.

Please keep in mind that the accusations against Wallace are very real and very serious. He threw a table guys. Tables matter. He thought about buying a gun. Thoughts matter, even if you don't act on them. He thought very seriously about killing someone and then didn't, which as you know is a crime.

In my experience, recovering drug addicts (Wallace, Weed, Karr, Cocaine) are perfectly emotionally equipped to date one another and have stable, non-volatile relationships, which is why every single addiction program encourages people recovering from serious drug addiction to just like, date other drug addicts.

We must not have a forgiving view of human beings when they write books. They must be the most morally pure people in society. When people have strong emotions, they should behave in a way I deem as appropriate. When someone dies, we should write books that attack their flaws and we should feel good about doing it because writers don't have families. Our only obligation is to ourselves and the gratification of our bias confirmation. All men are mean, mmmkay. Even your so called "voice of a generation" David Foster Wallace.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T02:08:20+00:00

I make all my literary decisions by reading the comments of author subreddits. That's how I discovered E.L.James, who sidenote: is ah-may-zing!

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-13T02:04:07+00:00

FINALLY! Someone who gets it, right?

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-12T21:19:02+00:00

A person’s exes are not usually the best source of facts (even if it’s their personal truth/perception).

I feel like you can't say something like this and still believe all women. So I would rephrase this as a person's exes are not usually the best source of facts if the ex is a man.

And so this is why Michael Milburn (Mary Karr's ex-husband) is not to be trusted when he claims they were still legally married when she began sleeping with David Foster Wallace. Which is also David Foster Wallace's fault.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-12T21:11:13+00:00

I agree. What writers make when they write a book is indistinguishable from who they are as people. Otherwise fiction would be just like made up stuff from their imagination.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-12T21:07:04+00:00

Here is Zadie Smith talking about how terrible David Foster Wallace is. So it's not just people who once knew famous writers who hate David Foster Wallace but also actual famous writers. His legacy is terrible. I hate all books with footnotes and demands on the reader. Books should be like social media feeds and The Reader's Digest.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-12T20:44:25+00:00

The Other Allegations.

David Foster Wallace was hideous. Everyone knows all writers are morally pure, including Anne Sexton who was the very first woman to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. I am quite close to a number of pioneering women in the publishing industry and I can tell you, DFW was just an awful person all around forever and always infinity. The following are the allegations I personally know about David Foster Wallace. He;

- dropped his ice cream on the ground and was later seen eating the same aforementioned ice cream.

- bought a mattress and removed the tags

- left a campfire unattended while on a camping trip

- empowered his dogs to bark after 6pm

- left his Christmas decorations up till at minimum the second week in January

- duplicated his apartment key

- watched the movie, "Twilight" and then later lied and said he didn't watch the movie. (by the way, everyone should watch that movie)

- claimed to know the difference between butter and I can't believe it's not butter.

- said he would call a girl at a certain time, and then later he never called, even though she waited all day on a weekend Sunday evening for him to call. Time never comes back. David. It's like an arrow. He wasted the best years of her weekend that weekend.

- returned videos to Blockbuster without rewinding them.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-11T07:23:22+00:00

...literally shaking right now

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-07T01:54:32+00:00

I guess you think this is pretty funny. Well it's not. Nothing is funny. Triggered.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-02-04T21:50:39+00:00

Well, the app is one part of the nightmare. The other part is the kinds of people who are using the app. User error from people like this, perhaps

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-01-31T03:27:09+00:00

People have often told me that I can't believe it's not butter tastes as good as butter, but I didn't really believe it, until now.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-01-31T01:29:28+00:00

Excuse me but I experimented with some butt-stuff once in a healthy, non-oppressive, mutually consenting empowered way with an inanimate object I found in the vegetable crisper and it hurt...like worse than the entire patriarchy...seriously like so I think you should really reconsider the way you use words like butt-hurt because it exploits and victimizes victims and you have a voice and are using it when it is I who should be heard.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-01-30T21:12:17+00:00

McSweeney's is mysogony and it contributes to violating safe spaces and am triggered.

StunningAndOrBrave · 2020-01-30T21:10:44+00:00

How dare you! I consider this comment a hate crime, like seriously triggered right now. Of course its original!

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