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"RSP posters begging for a BPD art hoe girlfriend here because they like the idea of Infinite Jest (never read it). DM's are open ladies...just kidding of course, unless??"
"Yes! Infinite Jest has the most bookmarks on my tablet! He wrote a lot of lines that I related with, I'm sorry, I prostrate myself before you, Twitter. I'm sorry I got goosebumps when Gateley talked about the old cold bird and Randy L looker over the walls in the hospital, I'll stop remembering that"
"David Foster Wallace compared his own popularity to that of someone who does 'contemporary classical music' and that seems spot on. That's why I find the discourse around him specifically to be so bizarre. Anyone reading Infinite Jest is in the .0001% of people who seek out challenging literature."
"I was 12 when I finished Infinite Jest for the first time, which instilled a deep-seated appreciation for radical sincerity, so when this sub began devolving into cheap irony some months ago, well, all I can say is a deep melancholia came over me that had proven so deep as to be contagious to those "
"Reading Infinite Jest for the first time so I tired to showoff by picking it off the shelf and explain it to her. She listened politely and then pulled DFW's "Brief interviews with hideous Men" and said this is what using Hinge is like."
"Finally I can read infinite jest in public without women giving me dirty looks. I am free"
"imagine you're face to face with the girl telling you reading infinite jest makes you a male abuser, and she's a 4."
"I thought Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow were so easy to read, even to me, a midwit, that I truly felt like I was being gaslit by everyone who kept parrotting that these were the 'hardest' books to read and they 'couldn't finish them'. I am not an especially intelligent person by any means, so "
"Things it predicted: A populist US president who's brazen and rash from the entertainment industry, Instagram/snapchat/zoom filters, Working from home, The entertainment - which is essentially a metaphor for doom-scrolling now, And the biggest one of all, the US annexing Canada and Mexico into O.N.A"
"you also don't understand Quebec because you went to Montreal once and you read Infinite Jest ouache esti."
"I'm asking for a friend he gets absolutely no pussy lol"
"Any form of video calling, however, just feels like a hollow simulacrum of face-to-face interaction. That bit from infinite jest about the rubber masks and such comes to mind, of course, but it's not just that."
"I just finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and by God that man predicted 2020's internet culture and our cynical acceptance of everyday malevolence to a T. We are so steeped in irony and rugged individualism that, had it been made today, the movie Forrest Gump would be edited into a movie"
"He likes books a lot, I'm hoping I can buy him a book this week for his birthday that might set off a bit of a light or get him out of his funk. Please don't recommend infinite jest, I can't have this guy going wigger mode."
"The facial still that Mario lap-dissolves between are of Johnny Gentle, famous crooner, founding standard-bearer of the seminal new 'Clean U.S. Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far left macrobiot"
"I really think it must be acknowledged that IJ is the last novel that had anything interesting or urgent to say about the state of contemporary America. And it's shameful there hasn't been a single worthy followup in the last 30 years."
"Just finished it this morning, am curious if anyone here has read it. I know it's a meme at this point, but I thought it was a great and deeply empathetic book, haven't read anything similar to it(in its delivery especially)."
"I made it 10 pages last time and fell asleep and then never read it again. im gonna do it this time. for the homies that didnt make it. for the dyslexic community. for nyu undergrads."
"You are going to replace the lack of porn, video games, and drinking with something that is actually mentally stimulating. This is the time where you get really into that hobby you used to have, but completely gave up on it once you became consumed by the ennui of your unfortunate life. Pick up that"
"Should I wait till I'm 300 pages in to bust it out at the college coffee shop?"
"Mine is a youtube video of young men driving around at night, probably drunk, screaming at passing cars the name "David Foster Wallace" over and over again. Too bad it's gone, could've been used to prove the entire myth around obnoxious men liking infinite jest."
"you went to Montreal once and you read Infinite Jest"
"I just finished Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and by God that man predicted 2020's internet culture and our cynical acceptance of everyday malevolence to a T."
"I really think it must be acknowledged that IJ is the last novel that had anything interesting or urgent to say about the state of contemporary America. And it's shameful there hasn't been a single worthy followup in the last 30 years."
"It feels like something that would be in Infinite Jest or some other parody/satire on consumer culture"
"Just finished it this morning, am curious if anyone here has read it. I know it's a meme at this point, but I thought it was a great and deeply empathetic book, haven't read anything similar to it(in its delivery especially)."
"I made it 10 pages last time and fell asleep and then never read it again. im gonna do it this time. for the homies that didnt make it. for the dyslexic community. for nyu undergrads."
"Should I wait till I'm 300 pages in to bust it out at the college coffee shop?"