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In her recent found poetry project called Erasing Infinite, the poet Jenni B. Baker has created—or should I say found—a number of poems by deleting words from the pages of Infinite Jest. Baker herself calls the poems erasure poems, and some of them are surprisingly, well, poetical:

Everywhere the air is hollow, inflated with the heat of living.

or:

I feel the warm silver threads singing,
all feeling a fluttery little moth in a widow web

and:

Here is how to be sorry: Be sure you are.

Nice, right? Anyway, I was inspired by Baker’s project to create some found poetry of my own. But I didn’t just want to plagiarize her project, and since she had already thought of using the text of Infinite Jest as her reservoir of words, I thought I’d do something else. So I decided to use the paratexts of Infinite Jest as my reservoir text. Here’s a poem I came up with by erasing words from the paratexts of the first edition of Infinite Jest:

Pynchon, Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon.

And here’s another poem I created by erasing words from the paratexts of the first paperback edition of the novel:

Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon

And for my final performance this morning, a poem derived from the paratexts of the current paperback edition of the novel—the one that looks like a box of detergent:

Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon.

/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group, and it continues TODAY! (Today is Day 20: pages 270-283)
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us! We're still early enough for you to catch up!

We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 14th – August 22nd with an average pace of around 15 to 16 pages a day.

Discussions will take place right here on /lit/ every weekend, though a thread will probably float around throughout the week.
Our first proper discussion will take place between the 20th and 21st of June.

LIST OF SCENES:
http://russillosm.com/ij.html#1

OVERALL SCHEDULE:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n_1lTKBdmyQD8C1yFs2V_Q52Gfa_hCnwSjPju3lIdVA/edit#gid=0

REFERENCE SITE:
http://infinitesummer.org/

Hi /lit/. I don't come here often, but I figured I'd come here to ask about a couple books I've been interested in.
Namely Gravity's Rainbow and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. What do you guys think of these books? As i said before, I don't come here often, so apologies if this is a stupid question to ask for some reason or another