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Re: To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/22/2010, 2:30pm PST So the obvious takeaway here is that the shortcoming of analytic philosophy killed DFW. By studiously ignoring social/political context, analytic philosophy has ensured that it will only have stupid and depressing ideas about language. Too bad for poor DFW. It's funny that Kennick was the prof to whom he was close enough to borrow an office from. When I took a class from him he seemed deeply opposed to the idea that English was a living language. Maybe that was a sign of his commitment to analytic philosophy. Maybe it was just because he was so fucking old. My adviser's adviser took classes from that guy.

To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little.... by WITTGENSTEIN 12/21/2010, 8:46pm PST     Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by Hans Clastorp 12/22/2010, 11:11am PST         Re: Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by Vested Id 12/22/2010, 1:39pm PST             Come to Candy Mountain, Vested ID NT by shunnnnn nshunnnnn 12/22/2010, 2:02pm PST             Re: Why would anyone want to read anyone's undergrad thesis ever? by Hans Clastorp 12/22/2010, 4:50pm PST     Re: To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little by motherfuckerfoodeater 12/22/2010, 2:30pm PST