>Adapt a Monty Python sketch>Get canonized as important literature
My man!
That book is soooo long and even literature heads complain it's the hardest book
>>24987833I finished it again recently. I'd forgotten how abruptly it ends. I have so many questions this time around.
>>24987837Its not hard its just long :v)>>24989450read the first chapter again right after the end, its cyclical in a sense.
>>24987833No one ITT calling you a plotfag or screaming about how the map is not the territory. Today's IJ threads aren't like the IJ threads of yore.
>>24987833Canonized? Not ever.
By whom? Franzen?
>>24987837It's long, takes a long time to get going, requires constant back and forth and the actual "plot" is barely referred to. The actual prose is simple and the things it wants to say are very straightforward.
why does he love tennis so much
>>24989450>>24989509this desuit ends abruptly because the ending takes place immediately before the opening chapter where Hal becomes mute and has a seizure or whateverthefuck (I have to re-read it again soon, I'm foggy on the details)
>>24991151>As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He wrote about this period in the essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", originally published in Harper's Magazine as "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"
>>24987833>Monty Python sketchWhich one?
>>24987833I thought it was based on the Simpsons.
I finished it a few days ago. I liked it but I wished it had an ending. After all that work I put in I think I deserved a reward. No idea what Monty Python sketch, if any, you're referring to btw.
