When reviewing the Celebrity Cruise promotional material early on, David Foster Wallace revealingly drops a name - "Sharing a laugh with your friends' in the lounge after dinner, you glance at your watch and mention that it's almost showtime .... When the curtain comes down after a standing ovation, the talk among your companions turns to, 'What next?' Perhaps a … Continue reading David Foster Wallace’s Inferno
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One Way to Read Infinite Jest
I'm fresh off a reading of David Foster Wallace's awesome "David Lynch Keeps His Head" (in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again) and also a re-reading of his "Frank's Dostoevsky" (in Consider the Lobster) and I feel like taking a stab at saying something reasonably holistic about Infinite Jest. [By the way - if you haven't … Continue reading One Way to Read Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest – I finished!
Just a few hours ago I read the last of the 981 pages (plus footnotes) that comprise Infinite Jest. It's a hard to thing to get my head around, to say the least. There are lots of directions to go in understanding the book (and my experience of it) - literary, philosophical, syntactical (seriously). The best … Continue reading Infinite Jest – I finished!
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