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- Author John Green talks about the influence David Foster Wallace has on his writing style, particularly in Green's latest novel \u0022Turtles All the Way Down,\u0022 which is based in Indianapolis and addresses anxiety disorders.
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Wallace wrote about suicide like somebody who had already gone through with it and somehow lived to tell the tale.
Like ozamu dasai
and Eduard Levé
The points he made about 'healing hurting more than injury' has changed how I go through life.
LOL at all the DFW fans dismissing Green as sentimental and simple. If you've read Wallace's essays and come to that conclusion, you've missed the point entirely, and I'd re-direct you to "E Unibus Pluram."
I think Wallace was an incredible talent, a once-in-a-generation writer. I also think Green has written some impressive work. I mean, come on, guys, he's writing for kids. And look at how complex and powerful his work is.
Agreed. “How dare he express admiration for Wallace; he’s nowhere near as good!” He’s not fit to comment because of his supposedly inferior literary pedigree? Then what does that make you do dipshits who are nowhere near as talented or successful as Green?
He mentions the next set of literary writers/movement, will try to be (I’m paraphrasing and overgeneralizing) more sentimental and warm. Green just seemed to follow that but keep the nuances. He’s not a bad writer, he’s not a great writer. Green is a good writer, and he’s doing something helpful, especially for a time such as now. Then again, I’m not a green fan at all.
John Green is a gateway for thousands of potential future Wallace fans! I read a couple of Green's books as a teenager in high school and followed vlogbrothers, and hearing him talk about Wallace like 7 or 8 years ago was what introduced me to the man. Then I went down the youtube rabbit hole of watching DFW interviews and speeches. And now I'm slowly making my way through every DFW book I can get my hands on.
all the DFW fans ripping on John Green for being earnest, as if one of the main points of infinite jest isn't that being cynical and ironic all the time is incredibly destructive to a life well lived
Green has said recently that he can’t imagine objects in his mind or even have internal monologue. 1) how is this possible? 2) how does a non-thinker read or write a book?
very insightful
I love this.
Dude that looks life DFW talks about DFW. Immediate trust
Explaining stabbing more indepth. I think I understand that. You can be walluped by debt, break ups, and failed relationships but the one thing an intentful outside force can use is a gap that is empty. Gaps are not meant to be exposed at the wrong time.
John Green said recently that he cannot imagine a red apple in his mind. I can. So how does he write books for a living without imagination? And also, how does he read books without being able to imagine the actions being described by the author?
fucking hate ppl calling DFW 'the mozart of literature' he would of literally hated you for saying that, dude was, as john green said wonderfully here, all about humanity and heart and genuine love. Those kind of comments are why people dont like DFW because these wanna-be academics keep trying to appropriate humanity out of his works
The sweating was probably from the amphetamine he mentions several times in Pale King. I had a bad amphetamine addiction and found myself sweating in any situation. The sweating would make me become cripplingly self conscious and nervous about people analyzing why I'm sweating so much.
It's called anxiety, and it is not necessarily caused by amphetamine.
@@5Gazto Yeah, David Foster Wallace himself has a sweating condition, hence the bandana.
@@5Gazto iTs CaLlEd aNxIeTy
The wavering mix of physical disability and rampant depression has brought me to a point of being so extremely sedentary that I'll drip sweat with the most mundane of physical activity. I have to take the time to lay back and "dry off" after a shower because I'll sweat so much that I'll soak through my clothes if I get dressed immediately out of the shower like I did my whole life, otherwise. I used to be able to take the day's outfit into the bathroom with me and walk out showered and dressed in 20 minutes.
So yeah, sweat happens for all kinds of reasons, few of them actually being drug related
Well, no. The only character who uses amphetamines in The Pale King is Chris Fogle, and he didn't sweat. It was David Cusk (chapters 13, 24, 25, 27, and one other) who chronically sweats, without mention of drugs.
Chapter 24's car scene with Cusk is what John Green is referring to.
Looks like he's in deposition
thats snowden
John’s voice sounds so nasally and monotone here... almost like Brad Hall. Good video though
its weird not hearing him amped up and presenting like how he usually is on vb
Mom, can we have DFW?
We have DFW at home.
DFW at home:
His name is John Green.
There's a massive hole in Wallace's work, an absence.
Something similar to a very gifted young painter or musician.
damn i feel u man
John green sucks
A mediocre writer commenting on a mozart-level composer of the English language...ok, I hear him. He's accurate in his observations about DFW though.
Is he not allowed to enjoy Mozart-level fiction and talk about why? He was also very careful to make it clear that he does not consider himself in the same league as DFW.
Paul Martin, Of course he's allowed, that opinion is implicit in the original comment, which, at the time, I typed because I was so struck by the difference in quality between these two authors.
Shut up.
@@lexbotkin3100😂... you're cute. Can I see a picture of your intellect?
@@TheRedverb You have shit taste.
Anyone has any idea whom is he referring when he starts talking about metaphors for pain?
At first I thought he said 'Hazel', the protagonist in *The Fault In Our Stars* , but then I listened more closely--he says Aza, the main character in *Turtles All the Way Down*