![]() Supposedly there’s an “X-Ray” function, but I only saw it working once on Infinite Jest in my life, and that was for about ten seconds. The Search function on the Kindle Paperwhile kind of eats it, as it just dumps out whatever, a thousand hits, for, like, the name Gately. This time around, Fall/Winter 2018, I read Infinite Jest on a Kindle, which in some ways is good, as I can make the font big, and I can highlight memorable passages to save. I found a really useful description of the sections online by Steve Russillo…scroll down the page that pops up (and there’s other useful links on this page). It’s mostly just made-up names of years, and gives you almost no guidance. It’s very hard to navigate Infinite Jest, as the given table of contents is, well, willfully screw-you stupid. ![]() The movie might be kind of a metaphor for drug addiction. He’s one of various threads in the novel, with three other threads being a pot-smoking tennis player Hal Incandanza, a disfigured Southern beauty and underground radio personality and crack addict Joelle van Dyne, and this terrorist French-Canadian Marathe who’s in a wheelchair and is trying to get hold of a movie by Incandenza Senior that you can’t stop watching. While reading the novel, I tend to skip about half of the sections and focus on what I consider to be the “good stuff,” that is, the parts about the recovering addict Don Gately. ![]() But the Infinite Jest makes sobriety seem both feasible and cool and interesting-and it was one of the things that influenced me to stop drinking and getting high in 1996, a few months after I first read it. ![]() I was still drinking and smoking pot then. I read the first edition when it came out, in 1995. I’ve been rereading David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, Infinite Jest, I have an ebook of the 20th Anniversary Edition.
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