- Early on, there's two or three analogies that go something like: "A dude without a hammer is like a gentleman without a pipe. THAT IS, HE CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED A DUDE AT ALL." I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact structure of belaboring in DFW.
- Then this specific thing: "TG: im gonna fly off the handle TG: im gonna do some sort of acrobatic fucking PIROUETTE off the handle and win like a medal or some shit" ... where Dave takes a figure of speech and exaggerates it. Extremely DFW.
But I don't read much anymore. Maybe these mean nothing, and maybe other people do it. Maybe DFW had imitators, and the Homestuck dude copied them. Or maybe these things floated around before DFW. Or they're too vague to be attached to any specific person.
Damn, I'm still not sure what intermission you're talking about. I might have to go back.
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Some examples I noticed:
- Early on, there's two or three analogies that go something like: "A dude without a hammer is like a gentleman without a pipe. THAT IS, HE CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED A DUDE AT ALL." I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact structure of belaboring in DFW.
- Then this specific thing:
"TG: im gonna fly off the handle
TG: im gonna do some sort of acrobatic fucking PIROUETTE off the handle and win like a medal or some shit"
... where Dave takes a figure of speech and exaggerates it. Extremely DFW.
But I don't read much anymore. Maybe these mean nothing, and maybe other people do it. Maybe DFW had imitators, and the Homestuck dude copied them. Or maybe these things floated around before DFW. Or they're too vague to be attached to any specific person.
Damn, I'm still not sure what intermission you're talking about. I might have to go back.