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Easy as EN123
Fix yourself a drink, if – I’m almost probably impelled to add, legally – you’re above whatever the legal drinking age in whatever like jurisdiction you’re in, because I’m here to talk about the...
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[Insert New Post Subject Here]
Well, shoot. Because I’ve read Infinite Jest (ahem) a couple of times before, I’ve been looking forward to writing about the whole Lyle and do-not-underestimate-objects scene for a few weeks. Thanks...
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60 Minutes +/- w/o Madame Psychosis
How is it possible to miss someone you’ve never met? Characters are constantly either floating up to or falling beneath Infinite Jest’s surface and, on the whole, it makes for a soothing rhythm. When...
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The Bonerfied Truth
Telling the truth is fucking hard. That’s my big takeout not from Infinite Jest pages 507-80. It’s fraught is what it is. Not only do you have to decide whether you’re going to tell the truth – whether...
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Shadow of the Wing of the Thing
It’s probably pretty obvious, but I should say outright that I am a repeat Infinite Jest reader. I’m even reading it twice right now with Infinite Winter and my now much-overtaken reading for Drawing...
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The Sads
As Hal’s post-Hope funk descends to true anhedonia, I thought that it would be timely to talk (more) about my own experience living with It, the Horror, the Shadow of the Thing. It seems to be a...
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Keep Coming Back
No one’s taken this title yet, right? Alright. Good. So what I want to do this week is (um) talk about Infinite Jest for a little bit – maybe take a bit of a break from (double um) talking about...
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Paratext – Part I
So what I’ve heard is that this is somewhere around the hundredth post for Infinite Winter. If it is number 100, I’m sure you’ll all admire the way I’m totally resisting the pressure of the big number;...
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Arcs
Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings; they’ll get in touch with you. This is maybe pretty close to verbatim what we hear during one AA scene (much) earlier in Infinite Jest and it...
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Paratext – Part II
There’s a certain, logical-seeming thing we have a tendency to do when we reach this stage of reading Infinite Jest. Confused, overwhelmed, under-denouemented, we delve deeper into the meaning of all...
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