>the alternate universe where DFW became a mathematician or a logician and never wrote fiction
he would still have no discernible talent
What a wonderful world. We could have a /lit/ where people didn't just parrot the same shit all the time.
DFW studied in the humanities, why are you bringing up math? Is it the figuratively autistic writing style?
If it's because of his essay or the passages about statistics in his novels, anyone who has more than passing knowledge of these fields knows that he just dabbled and gave no signs of having any particular talent for them.
>>7584376
He wrote his thesis on modal logic.
>>7584376
Do your research faggot.
More accurately, he would have become a philosopher, not a mathematician.
>>7584376
lol
>>7586362
>the alternate universe in which he writes a 1000+ page essay on Polish Notation
>>7586436
>the alternate universe where he tells you to go back to Reddit
>the alternate universe where Grothendiek became a prose writer
Which site would DFW prefer, reddit or 4chan?
>>7586487
Upboated my good sir. *tips fedora* *teleports behind you and pulls out katana* * nothing personnel kid*
>>7584368
>another reddit scare
See you in two months.
>>7586515
I wish those whiny faggots would just kill themselves and stop crying about le Reddit
DFW was a shitty mathematician and his book about infinity was a shitty pop-sci pseudointellectual masturbatory mess
