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Franzen's dark night of the soul: considered becoming paralegal

The mid-1990s were evidently a difficult period for Franzen....
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"Betehsda Dilwroth" Wtf? I can haz hozpitall?
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he's a snob but at least he's not a SPS paper pusher going t...
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scalia couldn't succeed at any other profession.
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at least it's possible for the 627th PI lawyer in boston to ...
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he always uses that phrase "not appropriate" to re...
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i noticed this first time i read this passage, didnt realize...
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same
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THIS.
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oh the luxury of the 90s economy!
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alternate timeline: Franzen is a 57-year-old paralegal
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w/ armpit sweat stains, living in Queens
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if franzen hadn't stuck with it and written freedom we never...
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Franzen is such a faggot. he sponged off his family until he...
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what a fag.
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op is an A+ franzen threader
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Think about how big of a tool you have to be to hold this 5 ...
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franzen always looks like he's sweating like crazy
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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:59 PM
Author: Exciting burgundy gas station dopamine

The mid-1990s were evidently a difficult period for Franzen. Although he was a Guggenheim fellow in 1996, the profits from his first two books were gone, his marriage to Cornell finally dissolved in 1996, and his father died of Alzheimer's on Tuesday, May 16, 1995, at Betehsda Dilwroth Memorial Home in Kirkwood, Missouri. Earl Franzen was cremated with a memorial service on June 3, the last time Franzen was seen in public with Cornell. This cluster of landmark events signaled the end of an era for Franzen, who told Donald Antrium: "Not long after that, something loosened up. There was a space in which I could actually start to write again, a little bit, something that was mine and not ours" ("Jonathan Franzen" 75). During this period Franzen had entertained serious doubts about his vocation. He reflected: "I reaced such a low point. I was so discouraged with fiction . . . I was even thinking of temping or becoming a paralegal. And it occurred to me that I had written these two good novels, and it was not really approproate for me to go and word-process at a law firm. And that maybe I should think about doing some journalism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#20085637)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 5:03 PM
Author: carmine tattoo

"Betehsda Dilwroth"

Wtf? I can haz hozpitall?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#26738774)



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Date: August 1st, 2013 7:25 PM
Author: ebony irradiated sex offender pervert



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#23764037)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:37 PM
Author: drab messiness tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25012926)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:52 PM
Author: Self-absorbed copper hairy legs temple

actually pretty telling

think of all those smart kids from good schools that run to big east coast cities to be paralegals and then go get their lives tied up in law

how many of them could have really helped change the world?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013017)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:08 PM
Author: brilliant masturbator

lol like franzen changed the world? he's a premature curmudgeon who writes self-serious, bourgeois "literature." i literally can't think of a more fatuous snob.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013111)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:09 PM
Author: aquamarine talented faggotry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013119)



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:26 AM
Author: Floppy foreskin locus

he's a snob but at least he's not a SPS paper pusher going to be the 626th personal injury lawyer in Boston; I can't weigh their utility to the world but my point, I guess, is that too many people go to law school and it would be socially beneficial to see if some of those brains could be used elsewhere, cite: Scalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015901)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:14 PM
Author: drab messiness tank

scalia couldn't succeed at any other profession.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024342)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:15 PM
Author: Floppy foreskin locus

cricket eating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024347)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:22 PM
Author: cracking vermilion kitchen

at least it's possible for the 627th PI lawyer in boston to be a net gain to humanity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024386)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:18 PM
Author: wonderful cream parlor skinny woman

(Totally salt-of-the-earth bro who uses words like fatuous," "curmudgeon" and "bourgeois")

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024358)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:52 PM
Author: lemon hyperventilating yarmulke

he always uses that phrase "not appropriate" to refer to something that he decided not to do because he considers himself too cool for it. i've read several quotes of his where he says of something, "it was not appropriate" (translation: "Franzen doesn't roll like dat.")

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013024)



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:14 AM
Author: beady-eyed theatre

i noticed this first time i read this passage, didnt realize it reflected a broader (shitty) tendency

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015863)



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:16 AM
Author: ocher stead goyim

same

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015868)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 5:17 PM
Author: orchid set liquid oxygen

THIS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024695)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:53 PM
Author: aquamarine talented faggotry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013026)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:04 PM
Author: learning disabled senate

oh the luxury of the 90s economy!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013081)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:12 PM
Author: lemon hyperventilating yarmulke

alternate timeline: Franzen is a 57-year-old paralegal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013132)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:15 PM
Author: aquamarine talented faggotry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013160)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:15 PM
Author: lemon hyperventilating yarmulke

w/ armpit sweat stains, living in Queens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013167)



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Date: August 24th, 2014 1:49 PM
Author: Marvelous site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#26196058)



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Date: September 21st, 2014 7:55 PM
Author: drab messiness tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#26369703)



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:14 PM
Author: Emerald Hilarious Home Giraffe

if franzen hadn't stuck with it and written freedom we never would have gotten that hilarious vid of him shooting hoops. or this:

http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/jonathan-franzen.jpg

depriving the world of these gifts would not have been appropriate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25013158)



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:13 AM
Author: offensive stag film ratface



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015856)



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:12 AM
Author: offensive stag film ratface

Franzen is such a faggot. he sponged off his family until he was in his late 40s and was never gainfully employed. then he won the lottery with that shitty novel of his.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015855)



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Date: December 18th, 2015 4:25 PM
Author: trip church trust fund



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:24 AM
Author: Sienna stirring place of business mental disorder

what a fag.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25015895)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:19 PM
Author: Bespoke maroon cuckold theater stage

op is an A+ franzen threader

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024364)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:20 PM
Author: wonderful cream parlor skinny woman

Think about how big of a tool you have to be to hold this 5 second pose for a quick photo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Franzen_at_the_Brooklyn_Book_Festival.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024373)



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Date: February 15th, 2014 4:20 PM
Author: aquamarine talented faggotry

franzen always looks like he's sweating like crazy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25024375)



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Date: February 17th, 2014 11:59 AM
Author: Lascivious grizzly chapel milk



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25034632)



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:32 PM
Author: Well-lubricated glassy garrison



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:27 PM
Author: Provocative orange bawdyhouse windowlicker

he looks like stephen king

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#26738174)



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Date: March 15th, 2014 12:25 AM
Author: Bespoke maroon cuckold theater stage



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:25 PM
Author: comical indecent property boltzmann



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:27 PM
Author: snowy supple hunting ground generalized bond

biglaw partner sending franzen blacklined doc via email with subject line: THE CORRECTIONS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25544673)



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Date: August 24th, 2014 2:00 PM
Author: Spectacular Step-uncle's House



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Date: August 24th, 2014 2:37 PM
Author: Milky Prole



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Date: September 28th, 2014 10:30 PM
Author: Useless painfully honest deer antler clown



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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:24 AM
Author: At-the-ready Jade Halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#27609896)



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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:41 AM
Author: scarlet mischievous dilemma



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:33 PM
Author: aquamarine talented faggotry

love this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#25544704)



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Date: August 24th, 2014 2:37 PM
Author: Milky Prole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5LnPiorWck

Look at his doofy cameo in this Sesame Street video.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#26196380)



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:21 PM
Author: beady-eyed theatre



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:21 PM
Author: appetizing mauve fat ankles preventive strike



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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:14 AM
Author: beady-eyed theatre



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Date: December 18th, 2015 9:10 PM
Author: trip church trust fund



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Date: April 5th, 2016 12:27 AM
Author: drab messiness tank



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Date: March 4th, 2017 6:15 PM
Author: drab messiness tank

This thread went unbumped for more than a year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886902&forum_id=2#32753799)



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Date: January 18th, 2018 12:11 AM
Author: trip church trust fund



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Date: November 23rd, 2023 4:24 AM
Author: Rusted dashing depressive



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