>Wallace himself has said that the book can be viewed as a

Can you find the source where he said that?

>>9642645
probably that charlie rose interview from the early 90s but i'll be damned if i'm going to watch that dweeb prattle on for an hour about pseud shit to find out if my memory serves correctly

hes fulla shit it's a wacky pomo wank about how many names david can drop in 300 fun-filled pages

>>9642645
>>9642653

actually it's in Lipsky's book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broom_of_the_System

>>9642655

I tend to agree. Id be shocked if any undergrad anywhere in the world had serious footings in both wittgenstein and derrida. 22 years is not enough time to read the requisite literature, even if you read all day long.

>>9642666
still you gotta give him credit for his pseud skills since he managed to do all that before wikipedia was a thing, just imagine all the cliff notes he had to buy, shows dedication

also i call bullshit on dfw ghostwriting term papers for yuppies at amherst, if that were true someone who's a retired banker by now or whatever would have come forward and auctioned it off for a charity or whatever

>>9642671

...did you know encyclopedias exist in book form?

>>9642681
have you ever used a printed encyclopedia in your life? even for important topics they give about three skinny columns of text, wikipedia gives far more info

>>9642639
I've read everything by DFW, lots of Wittgenstein, and quite a bit of Derrida, and I still can't really see how that characterizes BotS.

>>9642697
u read everything by dfw and still didn't figure out he's a pseud and bullshitter? oh boy

>>9642687

Oh? Wow i guess ur right

>>9642707
i'm just saying dfw strikes as more of a cliff notes kinda guy than an encyclopedia skimmer