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guy really believed in his own hype he is nothing compared to the great post modernist writers like foucault derrida calvnino

I love John’s comfort with silence whilst he considers his reply.

Silverblatt knows the people he interviews better than they know theirselves

We need the reverence of literature back in our cold world. Our brains need to dance again.

"Which is literally juvenilia."

RIP.

painfully dumb audience questions. dfw is the man

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Interesting exploration of how inter-being of artist and world and art is a 3-way process of co-creation

Hoping that Michael gets well soon. He has enriched us readers so much.

Almost 20 years ago. Time, the revelator.

"Full Body Wince".. it speaks to you. We all know the brief, almost nqrcisdiistic self consciousness from looking at ones self in the mirror they were bit wholly anticipating.

Fixing passive voice is simple. Once you see the construct and its inherent flaws and pitfalls you just stop doing it. At its core it involves artificially reversing the subject and object of a sentence. Now if Kipen is talking about simple state of being that can often be more difficult to remove 100%, though to the extent you can remove it, your writing will improve. I do see some novice writers who do not understand the difference between passive voice and state of being, though both make for weak lifeless writing, getting rid of the former will instantly give your writing more pop, as will getting rid of the latter, but which sometimes proves impossible. Awesome hearing DFW talk here. I am one-third through Infinite Jest and this time I will for sure finish.

* I treasure these interviews and didn't enticapate my current circumstances of being cut off from my own printed words, works, and own life ⛬ trying to ingest art before the thieves and fakes get to it and degrade it in efforts of endless greed to say "mine" like swine ⛬

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He is sucking schlomg

I have just discovered this wonderful man. Such beautiful words. 🌹

The interview confirms the writer's thesis: that American culture, now world culture, is about constant entertainment. The interview is awful or the idiotic question by the interviewer. I suppose he's looking for laughs and most of the questions are obvious cliches.

The end bit where he mentioned that there was no men of stature comparable to Joyce or Kafka in our time was heartbreaking. He was heading to being that man, and he would still be him today.

1:08 :05 - the cringe in that hand shake speaks volumes

“Some kind of not-as-good Joycian tumble”

The part about sitting in a quiet room and concentrating on something for a long time made me think of myself reading IJ, which is ironic because IJ is about entertainment and addiction to such, and commenting on media-saturation and distraction.

I fakking love David Foster Wallace. I almost enjoy the interviews more than his writing.

This is sublime thinking and was/is such a good communicator.

A lot of bullshit here, with religious dogma thrown in for extremely weak and vapid buttressing.

I always laughed with him regarding the sentence length and had nothing but envy of him for being able to be the intellect the hat pulled off what I/some of us always wanted to do but couldn't.

The audience sounds superficial.

I tried IJ three or four times, got up to about page 200. Then I read his nonfiction for a couple of years and returned to Infinite Jest. To date I’ve read it four times and am sure I’ll read it a few more times. I’ve read pretty much all of his work now, except for the literary criticism and mathematical stuff, which I can’t understand.

bruh who is this dondadelo person. ive heard him say his name multiple times and i cant spell it right

Он разговаривает даже быстрее, чем Екатерина Шульман

Вот курсы писательского мастерства - это реально какое-то шарлатанство. Этому нельзя научить, с талантом к этому можно только родиться, по-моему это очевидно. И всё, что может сделать препод в рамках таких курсов, - навязать собственную эстетику, что никак не поможет студентам отыскать свой собственный голос. Можно было бы вспомнить, что Уоллес сам в своё время посещал подобные курсы, но в том-то и дело, что он там постоянно срался с преподами и гнул свою линию, то есть вёл себя явно не так, как, предполагаю, ждал от своих собственных студентов. Я абсолютно уверена, что если человек талантлив, он должен просто следовать за своими ощущениями и делать то, от чего его самого прёт. Потому что только если тебя самого прям прёт, обязательно найдутся люди, которым это понравится. И в этом весь парадокс - Уоллес никогда не сомневался в себе и в собственном вкусе, он никогда не позволил бы кому-то диктовать, что «вкусно», а что нет, потому что у него были всегда собственные взгляды на эстетику, но на его собственные курсы приходят не настолько уверенные в себе люди, они сомневаются в себе, и добровольно позволяют поставить чужие представления об эстетике выше собственных. Печаль. Словно они уверены, что у другого человека есть какой-то доступ к «объективному» представлению о том, как правильно писать, хотя эта «объективность» не основана ни на чем, кроме успеха, за которым стояла вера в собственные представления и собственный вектор развития. Идти учиться творить - значить не иметь собственного представления и собственного вкуса, а значит заведомо быть неспособным к этому занятию.

thank you!

I am by no means a genius or an intellectual like DFW but I totally get him, or maybe he gets me! I would love to have been friends with him and been able to just hang out on the porch late at night talking about cool and deep stuff.

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John Berger is so correct!!!

A machine can master a technique.

pensando en ti en este dia de los muertos maestro - saludos y qepd

the breathless run on(with grammar) is employed experimentally throughout the entirety of Baron Wenckheims Homecoming, and I enjoyed every last letter of the novel. Take a peek for yourself sometime, you might just enjoy it.

He keeps talking about "as I've gotten older-" Yet he never grew old. He cut it off, as if he feared what it means to grow old, futile, and meaningless. In the photograph above, despite the scruffy whiskers, he looks like a boy.

People relish to pry into the writer's mind as if a starving skell on skid row ripping open a soup can with a jagged can opener just so they can swirl their tongue around the skull cavity of creation and thereby gain a pustule of nutrition.

jeez this was kind of surreal, i was that lonely kid dfw. I first read IJ when i was 16 and it resonated with me unlike anything else i've ever experienced

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Who is the interviewer? Anyone know? Thank you I want read his work

<<tenderness is an expresion of a refusal to judge>>

love it!❤️👍🏼

This conversation so brilliantly illustrates why the writer needs the writer just as much as vice versa.

He sounds very French!

This man, so full of intelligence and humor, hanged himself at age 46 because he apparently felt he had no options left.

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