"Sad, though, again. Do you know where all the really sad

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Anonymous 2016-02-09 05:41:59 Post No. 7677754 [Report]

"Sad, though, again. Do you know where all the really sad stories I'm getting are coming from? They're coming, it turns out, from kids. Kids in college. I'm starting to think something is just deeply wrong with the youth of America. First of all, a truly disturbing number of them are interested in writing fiction. Truly disturbing. And more than interested, actually. You don't get the sorts of things I've been getting from people who are merely . . . interested. And sad, sad stories. Whatever happened to happy stories, Lenore? Or at least morals? I'd fall ravenously on one of the sort of didactic Salingerian solace-found-in-the-unlikeliest-place pieces I was getting by the gross at Hunt and Peck. I'm concerned about today's kids. These kids should be out drinking beer and seeing films and having panty raids and losing virginities and writhing to suggestive music, not making up long, sad, convoluted stories. And they are as an invariable rule simply atrocious typists. They should be out having fun and learning to type. I'm not a little worried. Really."

Why isn't this a meme? It's a lot more memeworthy than Infinite Jest.

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Anonymous 2016-02-09 05:49:59 Post No.7677770
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Anonymous 2016-02-09 05:49:59 Post No.7677770 [Report]

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Broom has its moments, but it isn't nearly as good or mature as IJ and most of his shorter work.

I think people tend to want to talk about books that impress them. Broom was a fantastic piece of work for an undergrad, and it's cool that it counted as a philosophy thesis, but it's just not impressive compared to the master works of more mature authors.

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Anonymous 2016-02-09 06:10:43 Post No.7677807
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Anonymous 2016-02-09 06:10:43 Post No.7677807 [Report]

It's a lot more fun than his more mature/well-thought-out work though. It's definitely not as impressive as many of the other books I've read but it's a lot more entertaining even if he was noticeably trying to ape authors like Pinecone, McCarthy, and Kafka in it. Maybe even because of that, actually.

It's just so drastically different from his ultra-depressive later work that the contrast is refreshing, somehow.

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Anonymous 2016-02-09 06:14:22 Post No.7677820
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Anonymous 2016-02-09 06:14:22 Post No.7677820 [Report]

Strange words from a suicide, I guess that was an early work.