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Me on the right, enjoying the mentally challenged infant in the middle, wiping his drool and snot on his clothes.

>>24582672 (OP)
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>24582672 (OP)
>deep seated fear of being human
Isn't that a reasonable fear? I feel like all the "keep it real" guys feel that way because they're hyper focused on their own anxieties and can't reconcile their unhappy interior life with with a world that seems pleasantly indifferent on the surface. They don't appreciate that playful banality is an inherent part of friendly conversation. If you deliberately seek out deep, heartfelt connections, you inevitably end up in some awkwardly passive aggressive game of ping pong where each party tries to out-do the other with increasingly pathetic displays of self-pity. I'm speaking from personal experience here, I'm not above any of this. I do agree that feeling this way is both a low and high IQ trait though, only because human interaction stripped of all performativity would become a winner takes all game ruled by whoever has either the most brutish or intelligent things to say, without the need to be persuasive, friendly, funny, etc.

>>24582672 (OP)
He raped his underaged fan, Marky.

>>24582672 (OP)
About halfway through Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, it seems obvious to me that DFW had some kind of anxiety disorder. The constant imagining what other people are thinking and believing, mostly consisting of whatever happens to justify the imaginer's stressful state. It's brutal, seeing that over and over in chapter after chapter. Not just the depressed woman or the hypothetical about the divorced man, the book in particular goes to show the reader how he really perceived the world.
DFW was the kind of man that put himself in the mind of anyone who was speaking to him, so he was therefore always speaking to himself, and getting the reactions he had always expected. A flaw in his ability to communicate providing a perfect spiral of judgment and misery, which was perfect, as judgement and misery was probably exactly what he'd expected. Sad stuff.

i think it's funny/sad that dfw only got into this post-ironic sincerity sentimental shit for chicks because that's what they were pushing at his mfa, before they got to him he was yukkin it to pynchon.

Sam Hyde's job isn't to be a great author though. It's to be a weirdo comedian. He's clearly seen something. He's there to protect us from something. We don't know what, and that's because he does it without anyone knowing. We catch glimpses of sincerity from him though... anyone with a trained eye for that sort of detail can catch it.

>>24582815
Mental illness is a spook and is used by modernity to discredit people when they accurately asses their future prospects, physical appearance and what other people think about them.

>>24582672 (OP)
Detached irony and cynicism is the clearest marker of midwittery. It reeks of postmodernism