wardine be cry.
do you think he knew when he wrote the line that that's what he would be remembered for?
why is it so amazing? has anyone ever written something more memorable since 1996?
>>8206612
if by "what he's remembered for" you mean "what a handful of reddit2/lit/ immigrants remember him for"
>>8206612
I think he probably thought "I say things like take me to the library, and step on it!" would've been better received, because people who read tend to like books and libraries.
>>8206612
I know you're saying he's overrated because that line is in IJ, but you're also kind of taking it out of context.
>>8206612
>why is it so amazing?
it's not, it's shit.
It doesn't seem like a white writer could get away with "postmodernist writing in the form of writing unstructured prose of black people speaking using ebonics" these days. I know Don Delillo or somebody used to do this as well.
>>8208746
You couldn't even get away with the joke in Space Balls where the black stormtrooper answers "we ain't found shit"
