D.F.W. Revealed as Hop Frog

[Jane Grant]

First order of biz is to say working Sundays really sux, especially when it involves looking at centrifuged urinalyses all day. I don't mind watching all those funky crystals float down the Yangtze Highway, but when them sperm come a-driftin' by sunning themselves and waving GOOD MORNING BURLINGTON like Al Jolson on one knee singing Song of the South, it means it's time to mainline the Equal. With that said, I wanted to blab that DFW isn't evil because his writing sux, though it does, but he's Evil because he's really mean-spirited and dates models taller than him. Plus, the Kerchiefed One looks lots like Hop Frog in the EA Poe story. I'm one of those people who don't agree with William Gaddis that the writer is separate from his work. That kind of holy bullshit's true only in tickling the Ivory Tower with one finger up the Asshole of Death and the other finger Fucking Death in the Gallbladder.

QUESTION FOR FURTHER STUDY. In that last sentence, the Author cleverly alludes to two (2) Important movies from the 1970s. What are they?

I thought just about everything Derek wrote, to stay with the 1970s theme going on here, is RIGHT ON and OUTTASIGHT! The Cormac McC./Charlie F. analogy is so true. Doesn't Frazier just totally suck, or what? He's such a poor Cormac imitator, he reminds me of...DFW doing TRP in Broom of the System...yeah, that's the ticket! All that stilted prose, hilariously wooden dialogue, and portentous moralism...I fucking HATED Cold Mountain! I don't know about the Le Carre thing, though, because I haven't read anything by Tom C. and The Tailor of Panama ruined my vacation once since the ending was so lame so I don't even know about Le Carre being so great either. Salman's probably right about him.... 

I don't agree with Derek about nothing being inherently bad about DFW and CF, though (I won't judge Tom C. till I read an Op-Center and/or play the Rainbow 6 game). They ARE inherently bad...and evil, too....

One mo' thing and then I gotta go look at urine again...check out an essay on F/X Porn by DFW at one of DFW's shrines, please. You'll feel better about yourselves, I promise. It's vintage DFW and shows just how indulgent and pointless The Evil One is...it's like IJ Cliffs Notes so you won't have to read those 900 other pages. The article's mostly DFW gushing on and on about about the T2 movie and it's got all his endearing idiocies like his famous footnotes and notes about himself arguing feminism with his ex-girfriend (aren't they all, though, ex- I mean....) 

Jane
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On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:16:41   Derek C. Maus wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Matt Treyvaud wrote:
>
>> If you ask me, the only reason [David Foster Wallace] gets mentioned in
>> the same breath as Pynchon is...
>
>...because he writes really long books that seem really intellectual to a
>general reading public that thinks Wally Lamb is an existentialist. Sorry
>if it offends the sensibility of anyone, but there was no way in hell I
>was going on for another 900 pages after 100 pages of blather like the
>opening .10 of _INFINITE JEST_.
>
>The difference between Pynchon and Wallace is like the difference between
>Cormac McCarthy and Charles Frazier, or the difference between John
>LeCarre and Tom Clancy. There's nothing inherently *bad* about the latter
>in each pair, but they are heavily influenced and (more importantly)
>imitative. In the case of Wallace, I find him to be a particularly
>unskilled imitator who is in dire need of an editor who will say "Stop!"
>"Cut!" and "Quit ripping off WHITE NOISE!" in a very direct and loud
>voice. 
>
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