Infinite Jest, p. 271

>>9531206
Is that an actual sentence from the novel? Holy shit, why does anybody bother with DFW?

>>9531206
Say it with me, gang: no discernible talent

>>9531206
Wtf I hate AXL now

>>9531206
A cold look. It's an abbreviation of an old idiom. Read more.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/81900.html

>>9531275
He's actually a good stylist. That's just out of context.

A lot of it is actually in a purposefully casual or even ungrammatical form to mirror a character's thought.

>>9531418

Except it's only a reflection in Wallace's ridiculously condescending funhouse mirror of how 'normal' people, i.e. not super geniuses like him, think. But O! that folksy quotidian wisdom you can only gather from between two standards devs from the mean lol stats reference guys ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME OR SHOULD I SLOW DOWN

>>9531436
I'm too tired to parse this but I can tell you're mad.

I agree with you, but I still think he's a great stylist at times, and at other times consistently good/decent.

>>9531206
>>9531275
>>9531412

If you guys don't know what "butter wouldn't melt" means, its a saying that means you look innocent but you're not.

>>9531206
Not knowing classic American sayings.

>>9531436
stop making excuses

>>9531436
You sound like a normal people, rather than a super genius like that author of that book..what's it called...Infinite Jest -that's the one.

>>9531436
>But O! that folksy quotidian wisdom you can only gather from between two standards devs from the mean lol stats reference guys ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME OR SHOULD I SLOW DOWN

I lolled, this is pretty accurate but I still like DFW