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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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Date: February 29th, 2012 7:59 PM
Author: Startling piazza

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: Chestnut Shaky Lodge Potus

"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: Offensive Rusted Cuck Blood Rage



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:37 PM
Author: Ungodly wagecucks hall



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Date: February 13th, 2014 8:52 PM
Author: spruce hairless meetinghouse foreskin

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: Bronze address half-breed

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: ruddy point



(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: Self-centered nighttime coldplay fan prole

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: Ungodly wagecucks hall

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: Self-centered nighttime coldplay fan prole

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: 180 library immigrant

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: burgundy balding dilemma community account

(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: Slippery lemon mexican headpube

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: Olive clown messiness

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: provocative ultramarine partner

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(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: scarlet sadistic public bath

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(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: ruddy point



(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: Marvelous area marketing idea

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: Slippery lemon mexican headpube

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: ruddy point



(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: Slippery lemon mexican headpube

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: Bipolar preventive strike tattoo



(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: Ungodly wagecucks hall



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Date: February 13th, 2014 9:14 PM
Author: soul-stirring topaz quadroon

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: Low-t Nibblets



(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: Low-t Nibblets

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: Titillating Judgmental Corner Genital Piercing



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Date: February 14th, 2014 4:24 AM
Author: cocky pearl site

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: magenta persian ticket booth

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: burgundy balding dilemma community account

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: ruddy point

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: Insecure halford



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:32 PM
Author: Narrow-minded New Version Liquid Oxygen



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:27 PM
Author: Wine Abode

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: magenta persian ticket booth



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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:25 PM
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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:27 PM
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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: April 3rd, 2015 10:41 AM
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Date: May 11th, 2014 10:33 PM
Author: ruddy point

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: Primrose range corn cake

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: Olive clown messiness



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Date: November 17th, 2014 3:21 PM
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Date: April 3rd, 2015 10:14 AM
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Date: December 18th, 2015 9:10 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2016 12:27 AM
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Date: March 4th, 2017 6:15 PM
Author: Ungodly wagecucks hall

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Date: January 18th, 2018 12:11 AM
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