![]() How ridiculous a notion! But I also thought it was a simple throw-away line. When I first read it, I made a mental note and then laughed. My favorite part so far? When Wallace uses the line, “ finish their swift and with-the-best-of-intentions non-violent business of stripping the Brookline home as bare as a post-feral-hamster meadow” (Wallace 58). There’s such obtuse (yet beautiful) vocabulary that I want to know what it all means. However, I will say that I vehemently disagree with Dave Eggers’ statement from the introduction where he says that it does not “want to send you to the dictionary every few pages” (Eggers, xiii). But the writing is absolutely brilliant and I’m already seeing the threads coming together.Īnd there’s still 9/10s of the book to go. ![]() There’s more I’ve forgotten I’m sure (it occurs to me there’s a brief passage about rape, child abuse, and other problems in an apartment in the ‘hood). Most of the book, so far, is written in third person, but several passages (shorter ones, mostly) have been in first person. A cross-dressing agent (who cross-dresses, apparently, only for the amusement of his superiors).Īnd a great many of all these things connect. Large gangs of feral hamsters that have taken over major parts of New England.Įspionage. Teachers and students at the aforementioned tennis school. ![]() So 100 pages in… what is Infinite Jest about?Ī teenager trying to get into a fancy tennis school.Ī unidentified man waiting for a delivery of drugs.Ī medical attache to a Prince, obsessively watching an unspecified video on repeat.
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