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Wardine be Cry.


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>Wardine be Cry.
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>>7672825
Epic jest friend.
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JEST
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>>7672825
Nice meme, but in all seriousness is there any explanation for why DFW would choose to write such a poorly rendered dialect? Or was this just a failed attempt at an actual recreation?
>inb4 authorial intent is dead
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>>7672875
Roy Tony made him do it
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>>7672875
He did an actual recreation in Broom of the system. It was more convincing. With Infinite Jest, he was trying to do a less ambitious version of what Joyce did in Finnegans Wake and invent some modes of speech that were based on real ones but appreciably different.
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>>7672825
>David be Kill
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The book is set in the future and racist white dfw assumed ebonics would grammatically degenerate further.
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