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just finished infinite jest... truly one of the greatest and most beautiful novels ever written.

what are your thoughts?

>> No.17210108

>>17210058
I don't really remember anything especially profound, but it was an engaging read, pretty funny sometimes too.

>> No.17210146
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>>17210058
I'd like to hear DFWs thoughts on the 'bullshit semantics' of hot sauce. Actually, probably pretty close to the Alton Brown episode. Which makes me wonder, is DFW just the Alton Brown of literature?

>> No.17210160

>>17210058
The idea that remaining motionless(literally and metaphorically) long enough eventually allows ghosts/phantoms to appear. That’s probably my favorite part of Infinite Jest.

>> No.17210162

>>17210108
>I don't really remember anything especially profound
On the whole black penises tend to be the same size as white penises

>> No.17210189

>Hot ones
He sure was a hot one.
>The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

>> No.17210237

>>17210160
that's intresting, i hadn't thought of it that way... i found the whole wraith part to be one of the more confusing/strange parts of the book

>> No.17210456

>>17210237
Confusing and strange are usually good indicators of where to focus attention. I’m not claiming I fully understood that section, but I remember DFW reiterating the motionless thing multiple times through different narrators. I believe it ties in with his whole thing that “Some people see something really kind of scary about spending time alone reading”.

>> No.17211214

all my favorite parts were the ones with actual dialogue
hal and orin's phone call especially

>> No.17211229

>>17210058
that's all you have to say?

>> No.17211268

>>17210189
You should have edited this to be about wings.