I kinda wanted to join the bandwagon giving Pete Buttigieg shit for saying Ulysses is his favorite book, but then I remembered (1) I truly love David Foster Wallace's writing, and (2) it's become more cool to mock literature than to read it, so (3) fuck that
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People who claim nobody actually reads David Foster Wallace are the exact people who used to claim to have read David Foster Wallace. That's the evolution of hipsterdom: from people who loved niche art (and loved being seen loving niche art) to people who love nothing at all.
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Absolutely right inre to current media cycles. First, people jostle to be one of the first on the bandwagon, followed by a desperate brawl to jump from the bandwagon, set it alight and shove it down the nearest ravine
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