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What are the prerequisites to reading infinite jest

>> No.17552779

>>17552757
Depression and cocaine

>> No.17552844

>>17552757
Never was able to finish that book, am I being filtered or is it not worth it?

>> No.17552853

>>17552757
Hamlet, White Noise, at least one Pynchon novel

>> No.17552854

Daily consumption of onions products

>> No.17552861

>>17552757
You gotta know your aye bee sees

>> No.17552863

>>17552757
Part I of the first chapter of The Recognitions.

>> No.17552882

Being a white guy in college (undergrad) with delusions of obtaining literary celebrity.

>> No.17552900

>>17552882
What book is that?

>> No.17554263

>>17552757
nothing, just be American.

>> No.17554274

>>17552757
doing your taxes

>> No.17554289

Just do it. I don't see why IJ is viewed as so difficult - it's just long. I've given up on much shorter, simpler books, Snow Country for example. And but so obviously I'm not some power-reader, and yet I got through IJ in a month. If I can do it, so can you anon

>> No.17554539

>>17552882
projecting again? or did you fall in love with said guy and he never returned the feelings?