>“Right now I am a pathetic and very confused young man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searingly envious of [Jonathan Franzen] and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David F–kwad Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live … that I consider suicide a reasonable — if not at this point a desirable — option with respect to the whole wretched problem.”
why wasn't he jealous of any female authors?
>>7828615
It's pretty obvious
wow what a mystery
Why are all the good writers today, Sexist date rapist types?
>>7828686
They're usually Sad, too, and if they did music they would sound like Snow Patrol I bet.
>>7828615
he had mommy issues
Source, please.
>>7829447
dfw obviously hear that quote "gibbon was a writer who lived in his footnotes" or whatever and thought it was cool enough to get too carried away with it, his whole footnote thing is so gimmicky
>>7829447
>>7828615
Typical progressive mental gymnastics. He's upset at everyone, but he only criticizes those who are safe to criticize, in order to avoid criticism. He is creating a scapegoat for his frustration, rather than accepting that many people, including himself, might be responsible for whatever problems he may have been dealing with.
>>7829458
>In another footnote, Gibbon skewers St. Augustine, noting that his "learning is too often borrowed and . . . [his] arguments are too often his own."
Augustine btfo
>>7829447
*faaaAAAAaaag
>>7829447
>no
>fucking
>way
>>7829671
>dog_eating_rocks.jpg
>>7829447
the absolute madman
David Foster Wallace, the guy known for footnotes, turned his arm into a living footnote.
