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An Infinite Conversation, with Greg Carlisle & Nick Maniatis (Jul 11, 2013)
Infinite Conversations – Episode 1 Recorded on July 11, 2013 Download link Description Infinite Jest was published in 1996. The book spawned a massive and sprawling response, spanning articles, books,...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 9, Scenes 73-78: How We Got Here
30 April/1 May, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) - Outcropping in Tortalita Mountains, Tucson, AZ We return to Steeply and Marathe. The temperature has dropped in the desert night and we...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 10, Scenes 79-85: Sheltering World Citizens
31 April/1 May, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) - Outcropping in Tortalita Mountains, Tucson, AZ Returning to Steeply and Marathe, we are told that Marathe’s wife has been in a coma for...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 11, Scenes 86-88: Don Gately and Antitoi Entertainent
9 November, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) – Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA A couple components of Gately’s job as an Ennet House staffer are to run errands and to cook meals. This...
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Summer Of Jest Midsummer Update
Image courtesy of Poor Yorick Entertainment pooryorickentertainment.tumblr.com I’m just past the point in Infinite Jest describing Randy Lenz’s nocturnal adventures in animal cruelty—his compulsion to...
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Wallace on communication
Wallace on different communication techniques to get at the root of things—to figure IT out. [pgs. 528 – 567, to include EN # 234 ( Don’t skip this one.)] In the pages referenced above, there are four...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 12, Scenes 89 – 99: Night Moves
1 May, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) - Outcropping in Tortalita Mountains, Tucson, AZ Back at the outcropping, Steeply asks Marathe if he ever thinks about viewing the samizdat. Marathe...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 13, Scenes 100 – 110: Things Come Together and Fall Apart
Lunchtime, 11 November, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) – Enfield Tennis Academy, Enfield, MA We join Hal Incandenza, lying on his bunk. Several people poke their heads in. Hal says very...
View ArticleThe rest of your life
Hello, Summer of Jesters’ I just want to say something w/r/t to wtf is going on as I am way older than most of you, granted, ok? My son called me yesterday (he’s your age, most of you, born late 1983);...
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Unwasted, with Sacha Z. Scoblic
Infinite Conversations – Episode 2 Recorded August 1, 2013 Download (right-click to save to your computer) Sacha Z. Scoblic is the author of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety—and a fellow reader of Infinite...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 14, Scenes 111 – 114: Backstories
As of the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment (2009) – Boston, MA We get another account of teleputer technology and some of the medical conditions that arise when over 50% of a city’s population...
View ArticleWallace (and me) on The Family
Let’s start with this: David Foster Wallace was a genius – insomuch as intellect and the ability to construct words into sentences like no one else has ever before or since. And to do so he had to have...
View ArticleInfinite Jest predicted Netflix. Netflix presents OITNB. OITNB is Infinite Jest.
[A guest post by Jake Jabbour, originally posted on his Tumblr blog. — ed.] It took me 26 months, give or take a week, to read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in its entirety. Depending on what...
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Wallace on ‘Himself’
The pages’ in Infinite Jest 736 – 747 were the most disturbing and upsetting for me and they were not about drugs or alcohol, addictions; sexual abuse; depression, animal abuse, death, murder, torture...
View ArticleThere but for the Grace of What? (or “Why I Quit Infinite Jest.”)
I quit Infinite Jest last night. Maybe for the summer, or maybe for good. At first I thought it was because I hit the Matty Pemulis section on page 684 and the rape was triggering because of my own...
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Wallace on Wallace
What follows is a reflection from the reading of pages 809 – 851, what we in the group have been calling “The Wraith,” but what might more accurately be called, The Fever Dream. It’s what’s going on in...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 15, Scenes 115 – 133: People Take Their Places
11 November, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) - Enfield Tennis Academy, Enfield, MA We now travel back a couple days, back to the match between Hal and Stice, which happened by an order...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 16, Scenes 134 – 147: 14 November, Year of the Depend...
14 November, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) – Enfield Tennis Academy, Enfield, MA Returning to the viewing room with Hal and the other ETAs, they are still watching Blood Sister: One...
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Scene-by-Scene Summary 17, Scenes 148 – 158: Abandon All Hope
14 November, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment (2009) – Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House, Enfield, MA Returning to Joelle’s room in Ennet House, she is thinking that the reason she...
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The Sweet Spot
The Sweet Spot I’m almost finished, only 43 pages to go and I’ll probably sprint so I wanted to say something about this before we all move on. “A somehow deliciously symmetrical buzz: the mind floats...
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