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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:47 am

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FavreFan wrote:

rogers park bryan wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

95% of my posts are as disposable and interchangeable as anybody else's. I don't get this thread at all.

Don't be modest

Certainly you're capable of getting in it with the rest of us posters in posting normal....but at the heart of it you're a great writer and very intelligent

And I hate to paint regular posters here as idiots who don't read books, but I'd wager a good portion of the board has no idea who David Foster Wallace is

Just some perspective

I'm not sure what you define good portion as, but I wouldn't agree with that. Probably a lot of people who haven't read any of his stuff, but I'm pretty sure most people know the name.

Ok, fair enough, I just meant to say that most people here might not be as plugged in to literary and scholastic type worlds.

It's like the RBI stat, it doesnt mean your smart because you read him, but you're not going to find too many low brow unintelligent people that read him.

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The Original Kid Cairo

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:50 am

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jimmypasta wrote:

David Foster Wallace is the former wheelchair bound Governor of Alabama who wrote the song "That's what friends are for".

My God,THIS joke can't get a laugh? FU not-so-intelligent CSFMBR's!

Worst thing you can do is repeat the joke.

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:57 am

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Darkside wrote:

So a dumbass that reads infinite jest becomes a nondumbass.
Fascinating!
Year of the tucks medicated pads rejoyce!

No, spelling rejoice correctly makes you a nondumbass

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Furious Styles

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:26 am

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I just figured rejoyce was referring to a celebrity that would reasonably have sex with you. Twice.

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rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:27 am

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Furious Styles wrote:

I just figured rejoyce was referring to a celebrity that would reasonably have sex with you. Twice.

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Rod

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:52 am

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Furious Styles wrote:

I just figured rejoyce was referring to a celebrity that would reasonably have sex with you. Twice.

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Dave In Champaign

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:13 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

Dan Bernstein is probably the member in highest standing, though I didn't find out that he was a fan until about two years after I started listening. When DFW wrote about listening to Bears postgame on the Score, I thought it was Doug and OB!

Makes sense. For whatever reason, Wallace has a tremendous hold on hacky middlebrow writers who aren't half as smart as they think they are. Simmons and Klosterman both cite him as a major influence, which is mindblowing.

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Zizou

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:17 pm

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Beerstain does have some kind of creepy obsession with Wallace. Like, because DFW listened to their show it automatically made the show credible and not the bile-spewing cesspool of cretinism that it really is. He mentioned before some note/message Wallace wrote that he is holding on to but won't read publicly, like a covetous child. It may have been on the anniversary of his passing or maybe an '"Ask Us Anything" bit.

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NearWessSideHussra

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:36 pm

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thought he posted that letter in a blog post after Wallace died.

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NearWessSideHussra

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:40 pm

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Dave In Champaign wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

Klosterman I can see being a rabid Wallace fan. But Simmons? Maybe he's read some of Wallace's non-fiction essays, which are fun reads.

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Darkside

Post subject: Re: I think someone forgot to tell

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:14 pm

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rogers park bryan wrote:

Darkside wrote:

So a dumbass that reads infinite jest becomes a nondumbass.
Fascinating!
Year of the tucks medicated pads rejoyce!

No, spelling rejoice correctly makes you a nondumbass

Oh. Well then. Dumbassery here comes I.

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