What would he say about the modern world?

he'd kick the stool out from under it

"Not much has changed."

>>8611476
"It's lit fam "
-DFW 2016

>>8611476
hed kill himself again
or maybe hed fit in, being a pseud and all

>>8611476
Y'know, it's interesting how Wallace is basically THE post-internet writer, yet hated it and refused to use it. I don't think he'd have changed either; he'd be with Franzen refusing to use twitter

>>8611476
I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

He'd have a fucking field day with memes and the current election.

>>8611810
not to mention smart phones and social media

he got out when the getting was good

>>8611476
Only a pseud would imply that he would react negatively to the current cultural climate, seeing as little has changed.

>>8611810
>>8611813

I think he'd be pretty surprised how the current election mirrors what was going on before America became ONAN. Trump just needs to act more like Howard Hughes.

>>8611813
Are you implying that there's anything wrong with smart phones or social media?

>>8611476
He couldn't survive in the modern world.
He an-hero'd as smart-phones and social media were reaching critical mass.

"Hang in there[1]."

>>8611476
>"The library, and step on it.”

>>8611844
>>8611813

No, really- is there anything more embarrassing than tryhard pseuds that imply that social media/smartphones are somehow bad?

He'd hate Trump, hate social media and still be only halfway done with The Pale King.

He'd tweet «I wish there was a pepe the frog soda»

>>8611844
That is because he would have been exposed as a fraud. All of his fortune cookie insights would be laughed out of twitter.

>>8611810
He'd be doing what Owen Ellickson's doing on twitter right now.

>>8611854
Psueds do a lot of silly things

>>8611478
/thread

>>8611840
Yes

>>8611854
as a technology they aren't bad,
but the linguistic shift of calling facebook a social network to social media, which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.

as with smart phones, the issue isn't that the worlds information is at our finger tips, but it is that technology has continued to drive us apart. Please re-read the chapter of IJ that outlines the rise and fall of the video phone.