>reading Hamlet for first time >get to the line where he

>>9197988
Nah it was the other way around actually, nice spot though

Actually they were both referencing the concept of jest, a lot of it

>>9197988
bump.

>>9199844
('cause he's pretty)

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>>9197988
Do you ever wonder why hamlet never questions if the ghost is real or not?

>>9197988

First words of Hamlet:
"Whose there?"

First words of IJ:
"I am here..."

>>9197994
Shut up cracker

Nabokov references Wallace too in Lolita (but with a twist!) when he says "infinite melancholy." Sorta just goes to show how influential the man was and remains.

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>>9199855
>56 hours

>"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
shakespeare is such a fucking hack
nigga a bamboon with hacksaw can write better

>>9200204
holy shit

>>9197994
Are you retarded?

DFW is simply a better writer than Shakespeare and says more. His voice shakes platitudes. Shakespeare should be glad DFW was generous enough to take a quote of his to title IJ with.

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>>9200204
>>9200904
nice try

>>9197988
Shakespeare was, historically speaking, the first postmodernist.

>>9201964
No, DFW was

>>9201959
Honestly I think the connection between the last line of hamlet and the first line of IJ is far fetched. I prefer to interpret it as Hal's way of narrating while he's unable to speak properly and is stuck inside of himself, which is why later he says I am in here.