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Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:46:03 2019 No.12928302 [Reply] [Original]

Have you read David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest?
Please keep your answers short and succinct. Daveposting is optional but encouraged.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:54:34 2019 No.12928322 i've read like 50 pages. seemed pretty cool stuff, something an imaginative nerd would write, but not up to my english vocabulary levels.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:56:29 2019 No.12928329 And but so is himself black or is Avril?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:56:29 2019 No.12928330 >>12928302 No, why should I?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 11:56:53 2019 No.12928331 >>12928302 Yes

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 12:02:34 2019 No.12928349 File: 172 KB, 666x1031, 1554750288309.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >one digestive fuck-up and they took him off the Nardil What a horrible decision.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 12:45:27 2019 No.12928503 >>12928329 i think himself is from what i gather

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 12:47:31 2019 No.12928508 >>12928302 No, why should i?

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:11:37 2019 No.12928619

I read it when I was 18 or 19 and I don't remember that much from it (25 now) other than that I generally liked it. I was a pretty big fan of DFW then, especially of Brief Interviews but haven't read anything by him in years. I am kind of interested to revisit his work since I have read so much more since then and his hype has (somewhat) slowed down.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:30:13 2019 No.12928681 >>12928302 Stop being a pleb and just read it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:42:53 2019 No.12928736

So what the fuck is happening in the first chapter?Is the mold that hal ate some sort of natural DMZ?
Did JOI really kill himself or did someone kill him(Avril/Orin)?
Whats up with the half full liquor bottle near him?
What the fuck is up with Hal,Gately and John Wayne digging JOI's head?
Did Orin send out the Infinite jest cartridges?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:45:55 2019 No.12928746 >>12928736 The master was in his skull retard, but Orin already had it and was sending it to people who cucked his dad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 13:47:30 2019 No.12928754 >>12928746 But if the master was in the skull,then how did Hal not see it when he walked in on his dad in pieces after his suicide

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:14:42 2019 No.12928847 I stopped reading after the first page but it felt like I read the whole thing, so I tell people that I did.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:15:52 2019 No.12928851 >>12928754 It was a fake skull, his real one exploded

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:28:50 2019 No.12928920

>>12928736
I had a lot of similar questions and found some answers. There's good reason to believe dude killed himself because of a specific infidelity, which is open to speculation. Likewise safe enough to say that Orin is the culprit. The digging is supposed to suggest that they all go looking for the master tape in the coffin together.

The whole mould DMZ thing has never been explained to my satisfaction. I just don't see any logically consistent pathway there.

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 14:36:11 2019 No.12928954

>>12928851
>>12928920
So what was the deal with Hal in the first chapter?
Did he somehow got a taste of the infinite jest movie,is it just weed withdrawal(i've never really had any big effects after a month of not smoking personally).Since the dmz is missing i assume did it but he never says it in the book,but the other characters notice something is off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:44:26 2019 No.12929400 I'm 81% of the way through the book. You fuckers need to learn how to use spoilers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:49:34 2019 No.12929416 >>12929400 >spoilers the book is older than most of the posters here, spoiler tags aren't necessary

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:51:02 2019 No.12929423 >>12928302 I don’t remember him making that face in the interview

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:52:44 2019 No.12929429 >>12929416 I would have appreciated them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 16:56:36 2019 No.12929448 File: 152 KB, 341x317, 52184345423.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12929423

Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:00:31 2019 No.12929461
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>>12929448
Anyway, I’m currently reading it, haven’t picked it up in three weeks and last I checked I was at page 33, should I pick up or start over

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:04:32 2019 No.12929479 >>12928746 Oh wow, I never realized it was Orin who sent the master to that medical attache

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 17:07:01 2019 No.12929489 >>12928954 My interpretation is that someone put DMZ on Hal’s toothbrush or some shit causing him to freak out during his interview

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 18:24:49 2019 No.12929884 File: 504 KB, 723x701, dfwpain.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12929416 It's older than me by six days and I'm pretty sure I'm older than most posters these days >ywn be underage b& on >2011 /lit/ again

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 18:56:52 2019 No.12930019 File: 123 KB, 646x893, 090309_r18266_p646.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12928349 It was truly a most infinite jest of fate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 19:00:24 2019 No.12930033 File: 1.91 MB, 267x260, comingtoterms.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] honestly just finished the pale king a week ago after putting it off for a long time, felt like i was finally closing the door on old dave hold me bros ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 19:05:04 2019 No.12930053 >>12929416 >>12929884 I'm older than Infinite Jest by a year and two months, kiddos. >yfn be 13 and discover /b/ through Encyclopedia Dramatica again

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 22:41:27 2019 No.12930946 >>12928503 How do you figure?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 22:49:09 2019 No.12930982 >>12929489 I think it was weed withdrawal. That seems like stretching it, but I think that was it, and maybe some long overdue after effects of the mold, probably set off when he stopped being high all the time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 23:10:53 2019 No.12931070 >>12929884 >underage 2011 Fucking christ, what year did it become. Where am I?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 23:17:11 2019 No.12931096 >keep your answers short and succinct DFW should've taken that advice when writing this 1000 page piece of verbal diarrhea

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 23:17:12 2019 No.12931097 why does hal get high in secret?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 13 23:58:03 2019 No.12931266 >>12929416 faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 00:07:46 2019 No.12931295 >>12929461 start over. that seizure scene is fucking awesome

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 00:12:01 2019 No.12931313 >>12929400 Why would you enter a thread about a book right before you finish it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 00:20:37 2019 No.12931337 >>12928302 >not "keep your answers brief and gender neutral" you had one job

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 02:54:24 2019 No.12931783 >>12931097 Cuz he likes it

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 03:21:55 2019 No.12931876 >>12931097 he likes to feel like he's in control, but in unaggressive ways. His character ark is about reconciling his programming and putting it to real use, i.e. not passively.

Anonymous Sun Apr 14 03:27:50 2019 No.12931895
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Where was the master cartridge located? Orin didn't know right, who did? Underground tunnels beneath the facility? Will the AFR find it?

I want to know god damnit you can't end it like this

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 03:36:10 2019 No.12931923 >>12929416 >>12929884 >>12930053 >>12931070 /lit/ is dead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 14 07:17:47 2019 No.12932437 File: 56 KB, 960x640, 1465651377957.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12930053 >>yfn be 13 and discover /b/ through Encyclopedia Dramatica again It all went downhill after that moment

Anonymous Sun Apr 14 08:17:08 2019 No.12932590

>>12931895
It's implied that the master is in JOI's head and Orin dug it up(i think he found out from his dad's will or something)and sent it to people his mother fucked(like the atache) or critics of his movie.The sender address when the atache gets the IJ movie is from the same city Orin plays football in.
Since the year of the glad is listed as the last one and there is a super epic jet of theirs mentioned its implied that they will somehow end the Gentle administration.They have Orin locked up and then in the first chapter it's said that he is alive so he probably gave it to them so they will release him.

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