Why Men Idolize David Foster Wallace

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • Why do people love David Foster Wallace so much? What did Wallace think of all this admiration? Well, today, we will hear from Wallace about the pitfalls of obsession, and I'll discuss my interest in Wallace! PEACE!
    Discover over 100 of David Foster Wallace's favorite books and the three books he wrote with by his side below
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Комментарии • 27

  • @TheTrueRandomGamer
    @TheTrueRandomGamer 6 месяцев назад +17

    Really. We didn't notice.

  • @jimmyallen8210
    @jimmyallen8210 6 месяцев назад +11

    Are you planning to focus on James Joyce in the future? I imagine you are a fan, but I have not heard you mention him on here.
    Also, would you consider doing a video on David Foster Wallace’s style of humor?

    • @mikelpelaez
      @mikelpelaez 6 месяцев назад +3

      I think that he talked a bit about Ulysses in an old video doing a tierlist of various classics.

    • @mikelpelaez
      @mikelpelaez 6 месяцев назад +3

      ruclips.net/video/qiGX-rkHRQs/видео.htmlsi=ZbVN19EbRfm1W57o
      If I remember well, in 35:23 he talks a little bit about Ulysses in this video (among many other classics)

  • @Snarflelocker
    @Snarflelocker 6 месяцев назад +4

    "This guy has no life. All he does is make two timeless authors more accessible to thousands of people. What's the deal with that?"

  • @oldnewsclipster
    @oldnewsclipster 2 месяца назад +1

    *humility ('humbleness' is not a word) You are a 'powertalker.' It's very listenable. Thanks, keep up the good work

  • @theironkaat
    @theironkaat 5 месяцев назад +6

    I love the thumbnail because there’s a famous clip of bill burr saying how he had DFW as a professor and talks about he doesn’t read and wasn’t as enthused, very fitting of burrs character.

  • @thechaostrials1964
    @thechaostrials1964 2 месяца назад

    Love your channel. Yes. DFW and William Gaddis are why I became a writer, a non-fiction writer. I have published over a hundred essays on Substack and have hundreds of followers. I'd love to publish them as a book. It's so competitive out there.

  • @philosophia9927
    @philosophia9927 6 месяцев назад

    Hey, I have two questions. Do you have any Don Delillo material? And the second, do you have any videos on teaching English?

  • @nothingreally6680
    @nothingreally6680 6 месяцев назад

    who are some of those twenty writers you plan to start being the content guy for? (just so i know who to read more avidly soon)

  • @kentjensen4504
    @kentjensen4504 6 месяцев назад

    Will you also be the headquarters of all things James Ellroy here on RUclips?

  • @itsallgoodman4108
    @itsallgoodman4108 6 месяцев назад

    You should make a patreon and do long form DFW lectures, then expand your channel to cover more authors and artists. I would love to hear your thoughts on James Blake or Stephen King’s “on writing”. Theres novice writers scouring RUclips for good content on all sorts of topics. It’s thirsty out here in Sante Fe!

    • @chairmanmeow958
      @chairmanmeow958 5 месяцев назад

      As a fellow New Mexican I second this comment

  • @alejandroaulestia
    @alejandroaulestia 6 месяцев назад

    This the most meta video on this channel

  • @RJGilman1967
    @RJGilman1967 4 месяца назад

    #GoodStuff

  • @timmellis5038
    @timmellis5038 6 месяцев назад

    Ya, we look at these people and we want to be admired like them. I could say a billion things about this... but I remember watching Lady Gaga perform a song on RUclips. I could see the audience, and I thought: "How is it even possible for those little girls to not want to be her?" The desire to be admired like someone famous came across as so apparent on watching that video. The reason I mention it is because of how extreme that feeling is for young humans, and therefore how conditioning it is for us as humans. The audience is mainly 7 and 8 year old girls with their dads. ruclips.net/video/oj0YjGKqauw/видео.html

  • @Ernesto_the_Caffiend
    @Ernesto_the_Caffiend 6 месяцев назад

    😂😂😂😂

  • @cvspvr
    @cvspvr 6 месяцев назад

    i don't idolise david foster wallace

    • @user-xd1xf9rp5p
      @user-xd1xf9rp5p 3 месяца назад

      It’s spelled ‘idolize’
      Considering there’s autocorrect and google and you still spelled it wrong shows you are the exact type of person David Foster Wallace would not want to idolize him.

    • @cvspvr
      @cvspvr 3 месяца назад +3

      @@user-xd1xf9rp5p ever heard of british english?

  • @nerdentertainment12
    @nerdentertainment12 5 месяцев назад +3

    Bro, you're the reason why I picked up and read DFW and I dug deeper I got my unread copy of Infinite Jest off the shelf and decided to read it. Thank you bro. You're the best

  • @stevoofd
    @stevoofd 2 месяца назад

    You’re a prism.
    A. You absorb information from all these different great minds and condens it into your consciousness focal point.
    B. You emit that information back into the conscious minds of your audience.
    The question is: does the audience see the full ROYGBIV spectrum of information, or merely the focused white light that is your mind?
    I appreciate both, to be clear. If your mission was to raise awareness and direct you audience towards great writers who did the hard work for us to harvest the product of it without sacrificing the same amount of mental work and time for it, you succeeded, I think?
    I’ll let you know when I’ve read those books 💫

  • @theodoreconstantini2548
    @theodoreconstantini2548 3 месяца назад

    Great video.

  • @TrevK0
    @TrevK0 6 месяцев назад +1

    another great video, love it!

  • @richwoe7611
    @richwoe7611 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you and it’s good to hear that you are committed to keep going!❤