>David Foster Wallace: I'm not saying watching t.v. is bad, or a waste of your time anymore than - like - masturbation is bad or a waste of your time; it's pleasant little way to spend a few minutes - but if you're doing it 20 times day; if your primary sexual relationship is with your hand - something is wrong...
>David Lipsky: Yeah, except with masturbation at least some action is being performed, right; isn't it that, that's better?
>David Foster Wallace: Ok; you can make me look like a real dick if you print this...
>David Lipsky: [laughs] No, I'm not going to - but if you can, speak into the mike...
>David Foster Wallace: Yes, you're performing muscular movements with your hand as you're jerking off. But what you're really doing, I think, is you're running a movie in your head. You're having a fantasy relationship with somebody who is not real... strictly to stimulate a neurological response. So as the Internet grows in the next 10, 15 years... and virtual reality pornography becomes a reality, we're gonna have to develop some real machinery inside our guts... to turn off pure, unalloyed pleasure. Or, I don't know about you, I'm gonna have to leave the planet. 'Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier... and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable... to sit alone with images on a screen... given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that's fine in low doses, but if it's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die.
>David Lipsky: Well, come on.
>David Foster Wallace: In a meaningful way, you're going to die.
The movie is "The End Of The Tour", btw.
Is DFW right?
thank you op
im about it but there will be no other responses
>leaves the planet
What an absolute madlad
david was a pissy little bitch
currently rereading infinite jest
>im about it
You're about to what, user?
How so?
>tfw haven't read a book that isn't a textbook in at least a year
It's shameful.
>kill himself
>become relevant
All the fucking time.
>DFW predicted the coomer fapocalypse
david was probably a frustrated incel who could no longer cope with being surrounded by hot, rich, young Claremont College sluts wearing tight skirts, so he killed himself because he was spending his free-time beating off either to internet porn or memories of his sexy students (who he can't bang anyway without risk of being fired)
I love Infinite Jest and this movie. Wish there were more DFW kino interviews out there but I'm sure I watched them all.
Students develop crushes on ugly professors all the time. I mean, one of mine literally moved to another country because I was creeping on him so hard.
>I'm gonna have to leave the planet
He actually did it, the absolute madman
I took a creative nonfiction course with him at Ponoma back in '94. We weren't allowed to show anyone our essays outside of the class for some reason. He seemed naturally intelligent, didnt need to look at any notes or textbooks or prepare for any lectures, he just knew his stuff and was super casual.
I saw him talking to a girl on campus one day. He uncharacteristically wore a Fila sweatsuit, the kind that looks like it's made from the same material as parachutes, and trainer sneakers with a matching bandana. That was his pussy hunt outfit apparently. Several times a week, same outfit, I'd see him hitting on women in it. I once saw him wearing it while carrying an identical outfit from the dry cleaners, he had like 4 sets of same Fila sweatsuit.
I asked him about it in class and he said we aren't allowed to discuss anything unrelated to class while inside class, the same way we can't show anyone outside of class our essays. A student called out "but Dostoevsky isn't in this class and last week you talked about replicating his black tea obsession to test its affects on your own writing". Wallace stared blankly at the student with dead eyes for 30 seconds in dead silence then said "you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so." and pushed up his glasses with his index finger.
I remember telling myself this guy will either be super successful or kill himself.
2/2 for you on that guess, bud. Congrats!
Sounds like a hypocritice.
he comes off as someone who over-analyzes every little detail and then becomes anxious about it later. filled with regret. i'm the same way. my guess is he killed himself because of something woman-related. i'm pretty sure most colleges frown upon students dating professors. surely it happens but you just have to be smooth about it and not get caught.
Yeah he absolutely seems like that. You can tell by the way he answers questions in interviews that he is very concerned with how his answer will be interpreted by others.
those sweatsuits are good for avoiding electrical infetterence you swine.
>"you just got knocked down a full letter grade. Any other smart asses? Didn't think so."
This is the most faggot flex possible and loses on any officially escalated appeal; honorary Gen X gatekeeping Ameribogan Boomer
Eh, that's how most people "flex" once they get even a modicum of power. He could've just winged it as "good point brah, you caught me slipping", but you need to be charismatic to pull it off.
DFW wasn’t right about anything. He was a faggoty dude who killed hi self and never produced a masterpiece m. If you take what he says seriously, I assume you’re a fan of Nirvana’s music too
In a world where nobody loves you or gives a shit about you authentically, what other better way than to live through proxy and escapism.
It may not be real but it's all you have. You could, of course, pretend otherwise but in the end, we are all alone on this planet, at least the funny pictures makes us forget for a while. What's so bad about that?
DFW was a very smart guy but Infinite Jest is just a lame version of Pynchon for 1000+ pages.
>and then he died
holy kino..
based?
He was an above average intellectual deeply troubled by his inability to form or maintain proper interpersonal relationships to navigate this world, in his note you can clearly see the hopelessness and lack of control he felt most of his life, like having the desperate need to control and predict certain variables that most of us don't really think about, mostly social anxiety and lack of self esteem, which is ironic because he was very accomplished on a global scale.
Someone post the animorphs dfw meme from Yea Forums
it's from clickhole
I have all the above but managed to not kill myself