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what's on the cartridge?

>> No.7989475

>>7989448
The veiled women and a conceit of 'all men reincarnate and marry their mother/wife/killer' (the exact details escape me)

I don't know why this name popped up btw

>> No.7989515

>>7989448
The scrolling words of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace in a never-ending loop.

>> No.7989557

That's a part of the book I never understood. What's so fatally compelling about a drunk guy shouting "David Foster Wallace!" from a car window?

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>>7989557

>> No.7990780

it's not explicitly told

>> No.7991032

>>7989448
The Entertainment.

>> No.7991037

ive seen this book referenced many times on this board, how good is it actually? can someone give me the setup

>> No.7991048

>>7991037
it's of middling quality

>> No.7991062

>>7991048
why the hype, then? is it fiction?

>> No.7991070

>>7991037
Infinite Jest is like a giraffe. Interesting at first, fascinating, many details, but some parts are long and gimmicky and it soons end up boring.

>> No.7991074

>>7991062
"Genius author what hanged himself's 1,000-page masterpiece" is a compelling story.

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>>7991048
>you are now aware that "middling" was actually a very high grade

>>7989448
A man having painful facial seizures on German TV.

>> No.7991091

>>7991082
>isn't aware that middling means mediocre/average/not less enough pleb to be noteworthy
>has seizure

>> No.7991098

>>7989475
I thought it was the chick who was hot beyond all belief, something with a J I think, talking in a baby voice while dressed in a toga while extremely pregnant.

>> No.7991111

>>7989557
Link video? I can't find it for some reason but it's p funny.

>>7991098
Yeah, basically this shot through a fisheye lens from the perspective of an infant in a bassinet.

>> No.7991139

>>7991074

But it already got hype and praise before Wallace killed himself

>> No.7991152

>>7991139
"Genius author's 1,000 page masterpiece" is a story almost as compelling!

>> No.7991187

Its symbolized entertainment in general. Stuff like browsing the web/watching tv/ whatever you let entertain you.

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>>7989448
>what's on the cartridge that makes you waste the rest of your life in front of a screen, willing to do anything to return when the screen is removed?
I think we all know the answer but don't want to say it.