"Oh Anon, what is it you're reading... Oh, "Infinite

>>9405005
"a joke that overstays its welcome"

Wallace-recommending men are ubiquitous enough to be their own in-joke. New York Magazine notes that “Wallace, too, has become lit-bro shorthand…some women [treat] ‘loves DFW’ as synonymous with ‘is one of those motherfuckers’” (hi, it’s me). When conservative Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch cited Wallace in a hearing, The New Republic asserted that “Wallace is the lingua franca of a certain subset of overeducated, usually wealthy, extremely self-serious (mostly) men.” Onion-esque news outlet Reductress clickbaited me perfectly with “Why I’m Waiting for The Right Man to Tell Me I Should Read ‘Infinite Jest.’” Wallace is on a list of books that literally all white men own.

Joking about this phenomenon, however, doesn’t make it stop.

Small, liberal arts colleges are spawning ground for Wallace fans; mine was no exception. The guys at my college—and this is not necessarily an attack on their characters—did many predictable things: played ultimate frisbee, rallied against multinational beverage corporations, listened to The Mountain Goats, and told me to read Infinite Jest.

I opened this essay with the cocaine story because exploiting my own physical experiences, especially sexual, establishes and theoretically validates my reflexive resentment toward Wallace (by way of his fans) before anyone has time to question me. It also encourages continued scrolling. Then I considered cutting the paragraph because I don’t necessarily want the internet to know that story. Now it does. Yet in either case, the choice was mine to make, and this is, of course, why it enrages me so much when men exploit women’s sexual suffering for Art.

It is enraging to have a straight man tell me a story about straight men telling stories to a woman about straight men acting like shitheads. I understand that this is the point of the text. I know. I understand that maybe other men wouldn’t absorb the message unless it was being told to them by another, probably smarter and better educated man. But then why do men keep recommending his work to me? BECAUSE I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW.

It's about addiction and the cultural reasons for it.

It's not that fucking hard you autistics

>>9405034

Sounds like she's not read it.

>>9405005
Tennis

>>9405043
>>9405056
You're both right: it's about addiction, entertainment, and the connections between them in a post-modern society.

>>9405065
it's about tennis dude

>>9405069
:(

What its like to be alive.

White guy problems.

Angsty teenagers living in a po-mo world.

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>>9405095
>For awhile, I was seeing a guy who really liked David Foster Wallace. He once forced me to do cocaine by shoving it inside me during sex.

kek. I actually like Electric Literature, their youtube channel has a ton of good stuff.

i literally say its about "the pursue of hapinness in america"

Should I buy this book? I am a European and I'm afraid I won't understand it.

>>9405606
I'm a European and I enjoyed it.

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>>9405034