Wardine be cry.
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>Wardine be cry.
>>7656963
Looks like you're on a pace to finish the book in late-April. Be sure to read the endnotes, which should be manageable.
>Wardine be cry.
Wardine be cry.
Urine trouble? Urine luck!
Can we all agree that
>wardine, she cry
Is a more authentic negroism?
>Wardine be cry.
>Wardine be cry.
>Wardine be cry
>Wardine be cry.
>>7657240
A more authentic negroism would make use of a certain classic /tv/ meme.
>hol hol hol up
smacks lips
>u be saying
makes a free throw
>that wardine
fathers 12 children by 14 different women
>wardine be cry?
>Wardine be cry.
>Wardine be cry.
>>7657323
>several hundred pages later
"To be loved and held!"
>Wardine be cry
>>7657240
The context of the vignette is that Wardine is crying in the present tense. In standard usage, the sentence would be "Wardine is crying."
You're reading it as meaning "Wardine cries," which makes sense considering there's no declension of "cry" in the text, but contextual clues point to the fact that Wardine is currently in the act of crying, and that the narrator just drops all declension of the verb while speaking.
He could have written it like "Wardine be cryin'," or "Wardine cryin'."
>>7658833
His ebonics were more accurate in The Broom Of The System, so he must've been exaggerating it on purpose in the Wardine segment of Infinite Jest. Probably for the same reason he intentionally fucked up the French in the book, wrote that whole yrstruly segment, and made up a bunch of slang.
>>7658846
>Probably for the same reason he intentionally fucked up the French in the book, wrote that whole yrstruly segment, and made up a bunch of slang.
Probably trying to predict the way the language would change in his sorta-future.
>>7658907
Isn't she supposed to be black though?
>>7658923
I didn't draw it don't ask me. Maybe she has a weave.
>>7658923
>he thinks they were black just cause they were using gutterspeak
wait till you actually understand the book before you discuss it, kid
>>7657314
>fathers 12 children by 14 different women
