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David Foster Wallace on Elizabeth Wurtzel... 180
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Date: January 6th, 2013 7:20 PM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine "One of his best short stories is about Elizabeth Wurtzel. After being rejected by the Prozac Nation author, Wallace wrote the 1998 story "The Depressed Person," basing the title character – the most unpleasant person on Earth – on her."
Here is the piece itself:
http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-01-0059425.pdf |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:23 PM Author: glittery point Even the formatting is awful. Dense text, big paragraphs, and every other line ends with a hyphenated word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581876) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:22 AM Author: Deep Turdskin oh yes, such big words in this story. don't hurt your widdle head, anon. maybe go back to posting about arrow or blacks or whatever until the pain goes away. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27580774) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:26 AM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine for setting up that 180 i guess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27580783) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:28 AM Author: Deep Turdskin by the way, i never bought that this was about wurtzel. i always figured it was mostly about himself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27580784) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:32 AM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine nevermind that it repeatedly uses feminine pronouns and the subject of the cartoons in the article look exactly like her. and that a major magazine matter of factly stated it was about her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27580789) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:34 AM Author: Deep Turdskin i mean "about" in a fairly broad sense. e.g. if i wrote a story about a paedomorphic female who posted on a racist law board, it could still be "about" me. you know?
and lol at believing rolling stone; it's 2015. |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:36 AM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine 2012, actually.
and you seem dumb. |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:41 AM Author: Deep Turdskin i really don't. if i seem that way to you, you must be looking at things wrong. i suggest you improve that, friend, and come back to me when you have. i'm sure you'll gain more from talking to me then. shalom. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27580809) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 7:44 AM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine i see your point, but DFW was literally famous for pouring himself into random, banal shit. i don't think an article eviscerating Wurtzel is "about him", at least not to the extent you seem to suggest. she just happens to be where one of his darts landed.
actually, this piece may be more of a prophecy than anything. it could be argued that it is a preemptive response to the 21st century assent of the intolerable, self-absorbed shrew. |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:34 PM Author: Deep Turdskin i mean it's called "the depressed person" and he was clinically depressed. that seems like a decent start to an argument that it was first-personal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581947) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:41 PM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine except he was depressed for entirely different reasons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582001) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:43 PM Author: Deep Turdskin that's possible, but i find it difficult to believe he didn't see snatches of himself in the character, or at least wonder if he was similar deep down. in fact, NOT to do so would be incredibly un-self-aware and un-anxious by his standards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582014) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:20 PM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581849) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:22 PM Author: Supple Dun Antidepressant Drug Seems like a typical fgt response to rejection. No wonder the talentless hack blew himself away. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581864) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:28 PM Author: big native Seems like he would have been awful to be around IRL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581909) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:39 PM Author: Deep Turdskin franzen RUSHING to typewriter to crank out "Breakthrough: Realized DFW's Suicide was an Act of Grace" at 5wpm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581992) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:52 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle idea he suggested theater stage 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582087) |
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Date: March 31st, 2015 12:22 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle idea he suggested theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27587886) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:39 PM Author: big native I find DFW fanboys tend to be the most insufferable type of hipster neckbeard toolbags. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27581985) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:44 PM Author: Amber duck-like dopamine i'm certainly no hipster neckbeard toolbag, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582027) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:46 PM Author: Deep Turdskin maybe he's thinking of tao lin fanboys or something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582046) |
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Date: March 30th, 2015 12:47 PM Author: Grizzly jewess dilemma I actually feel the opposite. Not a fan of his writing at all but I think I'd get along well with him IRL and he seems like a good dude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#27582048) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 12:59 AM Author: sepia passionate newt sex offender I always thought that was his most overrated piece of work.
My favorite of his works is "Lyndon," published in Girl with Curious Hair. |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:00 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people i can't bear his fiction, technically it's good but it's too controlled, the nonfiction is so much better in my opinion (which I know I share with "guy in your MFA class" twitter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310537) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:04 AM Author: sepia passionate newt sex offender I don't for the life of me understand the whole "I like DFW's nonfiction better" camp. Everyone I meet says that and I always think they just can't appreciate good fiction with ambiguity.
I mean his nonfiction is ok I think. I like consider the lobster and tense present.
But Girl with Curious Hair? Come on now. It was fantastic. |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:08 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people I like Martin Amis and Robert Stone so maybe the emotional nuance of DFW's work is lost ofon me. For me even though his nonfiction is formulaic (it all rises from blips of cognitive dissonance--rage to self-righteousness--to a really bogus epiphany) it's appealing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310609) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:10 AM Author: sepia passionate newt sex offender His nonfiction as the same appeal as Adam Sandler slowly losing his temper at the golf ball that wouldn't go to its home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310625) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:12 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people ha, that's a pretty good description... but I think it's looser and has more feeling because of it. Did you read his EW piece on the Adult Video News awards or the Iowa State Fair? Those are pretty good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310632) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:16 AM Author: sepia passionate newt sex offender yeah I liked the one on the Iowa State Fair.
I'm just a fiction reader at heart. And I like work that takes risks and is hit or miss. I respect writers who experiment and fail. |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:18 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people Maybe I'm not. I switched to nonfiction. I like ideas more than people, I guess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310664) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:19 AM Author: sepia passionate newt sex offender fiction has bigger ideas though
Seriously, read "Lyndon." It's my favorite of all of DFW's stories. My Appearance if good too. |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:23 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people I used to think so, but I feel like the genre's been exhausted. Maybe I'm looking at it in too political a way, but I feel like all the interesting experimentation has been crowded out by SJW politics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310709) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:26 AM Author: 180 Hideous Legal Warrant Partner The issue is excessive experimentation unbounded by standards. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310730) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:27 AM Author: abusive ticket booth main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2153812&forum_id=2#28310734) |
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Date: July 12th, 2015 1:07 AM Author: puce autistic stage DFW's goat work: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |