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You didn't think to write down where we parked the car?The End of the Tour · 2015 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 4'22" · C1
Wallace and Lipsky's Parking Lot Fight, Explained：faux
The lost car starts a small spat, then turns into the film's sharpest argument: one of them calls the other's modesty 'basically false,' part of a 'whole social strategy.' The accused insists he truly doesn't think he is smarter than other people, and worries that any write-up will make him look like a villain.
あらすじ
After losing the car at the Mall of America, Wallace and Lipsky start arguing. One accuses the other of a false modesty that is really a social strategy, and of holding back his intelligence to be liked. The other defends himself, insisting he does not believe writers are smarter than other people, and that his real progress was admitting others know more than he does.
注目の表現
social strategycome across asregular guyfaux
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このシーンの表現
faux
fake, not genuine
Wallace insists he is not faking, and Lipsky answers that the denial is itself the fake.
Her interest in football felt a little faux.
このシーンの他の表現
- social strategy
a social game plan
- come across as
seem to others
- regular guy
an ordinary man
- fucked up
messed up badly
- tough room
a hard audience
このシーンのメモ一覧
82 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
messed up badly — Heavy slang; keep it out of formal talk.
Sorry. I fucked up. All right? I'm a fuckup.Link the three words so they run together.
Not everybody can be as brilliant as you.what is wrong with you
What is with you? What the fuck is with you?what on earth — Very strong and vulgar; never in polite speech.
What is with you? What the fuck is with you?more clever than
You still feel you're smarter than other people.hold something in reserve
But you act like you're in a kids' softball game, but holding back his power-hitting to try and make it more competitive...infinitive of purpose: The to-infinitive states the purpose behind holding back.
But you act like you're in a kids' softball game, but holding back his power-hitting to try and make it more competitive...You're reduces to a weak sound in fast speech.
But you act like you're in a kids' softball game, but holding back his power-hitting to try and make it more competitive...relative clause: A relative clause after ways specifies which ways he means.
But I think one of the real ways I have gotten smarter...seem to others
Wallace jokes that most versions of the piece will make him look like a jerk.
Ninety of which I'm gonna come across as a monumental asshole.a jerk — An insult; avoid saying it to someone's face.
Ninety of which I'm gonna come across as a monumental asshole.search for information
If we had done this by the mail, if I had access to my library, if I could look stuff up...past unreal conditional: A past unreal conditional imagines a different way this could have gone.
If we had done this by the mail, if I had access to my library, if I could look stuff up...stay level with someone
Yes, I can talk intelligently with you about stuff, but I can't quite keep up with you.nonsense — Vulgar; said in heated arguments.
- Okay. That is such bullshit. - Oh, believe me.not as perceptive
and to automatically assume that somebody is less aware...inner life
or that their interior life is somehow less rich and complicated...causative structure: Make plus object plus adjective states the effect on him as a writer.
and acutely perceived as mine, makes me not as good a writer. Why?talk with someone
instead of trying to have a conversation with a person.trust nothing said
It's very clear you don't believe a word that I've said.open a book
You don't crack open a thousand-page book...The t in left often drops before the next word.
I don't have the brain cells left to play any kind of faux games with you.「Wallace and Lipsky's Parking Lot Fight」を読み解く
What's really going on
The argument is about whether modesty can be genuine. One side sees a performance: 'I think it's part of your whole social strategy,' the accusation goes, and the claim is that the celebrated writer deliberately holds back so the people around him feel comfortable. The other side answers that the modesty is real — 'I don't think writers are smarter than other people' — and turns it into a confession about loneliness, admitting he feels isolated precisely because he no longer believes he is the smartest person in the room. The fight keeps circling the same word, 'faux,' with one insisting that his humility is 'an example of the faux thing' and the other that he is done playing 'any kind of faux games.' What is at stake is whether an interview can ever be honest.
Theme
IdentityThe fight is over whether Wallace's humble self is genuine or a persona he performs for interviews.
DeceptionLipsky calls the modesty a social strategy, and Wallace insists he is not doing 'any kind of faux thing.'
このチャプターで学べること
- Lipsky uses a calm voice to make an accusation.
- Wallace defends himself by denying any pose.
- The fight is really about who gets to define real.
発音のポイント
- as brilliant as — Link the three words so they run together.
- act like you're — You're reduces to a weak sound in fast speech.
- brain cells left — The t in left often drops before the next word.
I don't think writers are smarter than other people.Wallace's counter to the accusation: he rejects the idea that his talent makes him intellectually superior to his readers or peers.
You're not willing to risk giving the full you.The accuser's real charge: Wallace keeps part of himself hidden even in an intimate interview, which is what feels false.
I don't have the brain cells left to play any kind of faux games with you.Wallace's exhausted reply: he claims he is too worn down even to put on a performance.
Yes, I think I'm bright. I think I'm talented.His blunt admission of self-confidence, offered as proof that his modesty was never fake.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Lipsky call Wallace's approach 'false'?
He thinks Wallace's humility is a performance — part of a social strategy — and that he holds back his intelligence so the people around him feel comfortable. He calls this the 'faux thing.'
How does Wallace defend himself?
He insists he genuinely does not think writers are smarter than other people, says his real growth was admitting others know more than he does, and argues that assuming he is smarter would make him a worse writer.
Why does Wallace say the admission makes him lonely?
Because he no longer believes he is the smartest person in the room, and being surrounded by people who know more, he says, makes him feel isolated.
What does Wallace worry the article will do to him?
He says he has written enough of these pieces to know the interview could be written a hundred ways, and that in most of them he will come across as a monumental jerk.
Do Wallace and Lipsky resolve their argument?
No. They keep looping back to the same accusations, and the scene ends quietly, with both agreeing only that 'it's fine' while the tension stays unresolved.
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第 1 章once in a generationLipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
第 2 章out of respectDave Wallace Doesn't Drink
第 3 章shape the impressionWallace and Lipsky First Meeting
第 4 章channel surfingWallace on Why We Feel Empty
第 5 章comes with the territoryWallace on Why He Isn't Married
第 6 章in a heartbeatDave Wallace Offers Lipsky a Room
第 7 章security blanketLipsky Asks About the Bandanna
第 8 章about as sexy asWallace Recalls His Eight Days
第 9 章all downhill from hereWallace Reads at The Hungry Mind
第 10 章make eyes at someoneWallace Calls Lipsky's Girlfriend
第 11 章self-absorbedWallace on Being Shy and Egotistical
第 12 章come on to someoneWallace Tells Lipsky to Stay Away
再生中 · 第 13 章fauxWallace and Lipsky's Parking Lot Fight
第 14 章sleepwalk throughWallace Fears Liking the Attention
第 15 章autobiographicalLipsky Asks Wallace About Heroin
第 16 章spiritual crisisDavid Foster Wallace on Depression
第 17 章put my foot downWallace Dances at a Baptist Church第 13 / 17 章 · 残り約 13 分