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What happened at the end boys?

>> No.10496459

>>10496449
He hung himself with a belt

>> No.10496778

>>10496449
nobody on nu/lit/ has actually read this

>> No.10496784

>>10496449
Hal totally lost the ability to speak, Don ended up on the coast or something, something about a graveyard, Orin died I think, also something about Himself's ghost but I never really got that

>> No.10496785

>>10496449
It isn't what happened at the end, it is what happened between the last page and the first?

>> No.10496788

>>10496449
Reread the first chapter

>> No.10496798

>>10496778
Sad but true, maybe if Jordan Peterson talks about it

>> No.10496803

>>10496798
maybe if we just give him some patreonbux

>> No.10496888

>>10496785
What happened between the last page and the first?

>> No.10497059

>>10496803
i don't think giving dfw money will help him at this point

>> No.10497145

>>10496449
End?

>> No.10497218

Supposedly Hal, Gately, and Joelle went to dig Himself up because it contains the entertainment which along with the DMZ that was on Hal's toothbrush will cure him of depression. . . IF the cripples didn't get it first.

That's just what I read tho

>> No.10497322

>>10496449
It's a tragic ending. Our hero, Pemulis, loses hard.

>> No.10497489

>>10496778
I would hope so

>> No.10497621

>>10497322
Lol'd

>> No.10497668

>>10497322
is it ok to unironically like pemulis or am i a pleb

>> No.10497677

i hope poor tony is ok

>> No.10498106

>>10497668
You're good. He's pretty much everyone's favourite character.

>> No.10498136

>>10497668
He's a real shitbag desu. I don't know about pleb but you're probably an insecure nerd.

>> No.10498206

>>10497668
Pemulis is the man, man.

>> No.10498215

>>10496449
Maybe the real Infinite Jest was the friends we made along the way

>> No.10498981

>>10496778
why would anybody read it when it's his third best novel and is worse than his essay collections?

>> No.10499240

>>10496449
at the end if i remember correctly there is "change"... "yes we can" and something something great again.

>> No.10499247

It loops around to the beginning

>> No.10499279
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10499279

>>10496449
Hal becomes happy, kind of.

>>10497668
I liked him until it turned out he was a massive cunt.

>> No.10499296

>>10497668
he deserved better. what dfw did to him was cruel

>> No.10499314

>>10499279
What was cunty?

>> No.10499327

>>10499314
Trying to stop Hal from giving up weed and getting him hooked on other drugs.

>> No.10499568

>>10499327
Misery loves company

>> No.10499812

>>10499327
everbodys addicted to something man

>> No.10499816

>>10499327
But Pemulis unironically thought he was helping Hal. When did Hal help Pemulis?

>> No.10499846

>>10496784
Orin doesn't die. I thought the consensus was he dug up the tape so that >>10497218 was unsuccessful and he later sold it to the Canadians to get off scot free and continue with his aimless and hedonistic life style. The joke is that JO Incandenza, even as a metaforce in the narrative, can't account for the shittiness of the world/his own son he's also neglected, and that Gatley and Hal's resolution isn't some stupid hero's journey w/ metaphysical inplications but a spiritual journey (hence why it isnt really featured in the narrative at all). Idk how the invasion of the tennis match plays into all this (maybe that was before the Canadians realized Orin had it). It's been awhile desu.

>> No.10501137

Anyone have the greentext with the guy who brings Infinite Jest to his English class and always references it to the annoyance of his classmates?

>> No.10502239

>>10499296
Pemulis only fault was being poor. He was too pure for the classist people at the ETA.

>> No.10502264

>>10496778
there is enough better literature to fill a lifetime and it's not old enough to be historically significant, the only reason to read it is if you want to be able to join in on some /lit/ memes

>> No.10502273

It looped around to the beginning

>> No.10502276

>>10502264
It's kind of a shitty book, but there's something very charming about it that makes it worthwhile, and the memes are top notch.

>> No.10502300

>>10502273
this
how can you not realize this

>> No.10502386

>>10502300
There's still a lot of dots to connect, but I do recommend that everyone who finished IJ go on to reread the first chapter

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10502395

>>10501137
here you go buddy

>> No.10502437

>>10502395
I wish I could at least hope this wasn't true, but I know it is.

>> No.10502464

>>10502395
Thanks, but there's another one where all this guy could talk about is Infinite Jest and brings it up in every literary discussion his professor brings up. I remember a part where he slaps Infinite Jest hard on the desk and some marine throws it out the window, only for him to have a second copy in his backpack.