>get memed into picking up IJ
>begin reading
>teenage yuppie non-problems
>maybe it’s just an intro character or it will timeskip to an adult later
>power through
>read pic related
>close book
>drop in trash
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>get memed into picking up IJ. >begin reading. >teenage yuppie non-problems
Good for you anon
Well ignoring the stench of irony that accompanies your post, OP, I do have to say that I wonder where so many writers get these seemingly nonsensical and utterly ludicrous slapstick comedy comparisons from. Almost none of the are funny, if they were I'd actually give it a pass, and there is no way they could possibly speak to anyone. Surely there is a way of describing any particular thing that falls between "too explicit and elaborate in its approach to create a visual" and "I violently watered the cactus like I did the dark oral cavities of yesterday's prostitute".
This is a good, visceral line. What are you guys on about. Of course you wouldn't say this out loud to anyone, but its goofy associative logic feels apt and natural.
Like I said, if it's funny I'm fine with it. What OP posted I just happen to not find all that funny. But I laugh at stuff others don't so different folk and so on.
>This is a good, visceral line.
Yeah, in a Jack Reacher novel.
I think it’s that they have a specific visual comparison that is poetic as a pure thought in their mind, but in trying to translate it with total specificity they wind up sounding ridiculous. He could have as easily said “My chest rattled like an unbalanced dryer” and sounded less silly.
The borderline incorrect usage of “bumps” might actually be the most egregious part of the sentence.
who says this was trying to be funny? if i read this line in the context of the narrative it would be a normal line. it's not even absurd it's a basic simile. you guys are moronic
That's a good description. I just got tired of the footnotes
To clarify, I think Wallace's line that you hate is short, sweet and a little funny. It's fine and isn't what's wrong with IJ
David Foster Wallace was a Chaucerian fraud. A snake-oil salesman, constantly drenched in sweat from the scorching, empty desert that is his imagined world; a fraud who lived to be much older than fate would have normally allowed under such circumstances. His extant opera are good for kindling fires - especially camp fires - and for desecrating with watery stool.
Jeez did he kill your dog?
No. I just hate him, hate his works, hate his self-indulgent way of always consciously over-expressing himself then effusively over-apologizing about it while all the while knowing that it was over-expressed and effusive: in other words, just fishing for pity like the worthless narcissistic, navel-gazing butthole he was.
That’s just the entire population of New England with a household income over $200k.
Well, to my point. He was nothing special. Just another verbose butthole who thought his glasses and bandana made him look smart.
Fair.
filtered
Filtered like a colander with shoes in it
Is Swann's Way just French Infinite Jest? It's a bunch of random memories jumbled together in fairly nice prose, but it's incredibly uninteresting and unrelatable and I can't see myself finishing it.
It’s ok. Call of the Crocodile is the best memebook I’ve read from here.
Die die die die die die die die die die die
more like Infinite Shit
Pic related is maybe 10 pages or less into the book. I know because I read it recently.
Zoom zoom, get off tiktok and fix your attention span.
Yes, it took less than ten pages for this supposed modern classic to resort to a cliche with awkward nonsense phrasing that would call for the red pen if I were grading an undergraduate intro to writing class. Call me a zoomer all you want. I’m not wasting my time.
>that would call for the red pen if I were grading an undergraduate intro to writing class
Don’t you have a grave to be turning in David
I prefer his use of a similar line elsewhere in his work: "My chest bumps like two NBA rookies celebrating after their first spitroast of a half-arab socialite groupie."
how did DFW predict mia khalifa getting blacked
damned ingenious
Is she a halfsy?
novels are for low-iq morons and women.
My homie are you lost
novels are not literature
Ok moron