Just finished Infinite Jest

>>8954528
please dont waste anymore of your life rereading ij

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To start, can anyone explain how people are able to figure out the post-ending stuff? Is it explicitly mentioned in the text but not picked up because it appears to lack relavence the first time through?

just fuck off please

>>8954534
I don't want to, but if I don't I'm going to feel like I just wasted these past months reading it for the first time. Help please I'm losing my marbles here

>>8954541
There are hella resources on this

Although its important to form your own opinions on the text, don't be one of those plonkers who avoids complementary reading, especially with a book so monolithic. Chances are they will have made a lot of the same deductions you intuited in your first read.

>>8954528
Since when does a good book REQUIRE a reread? That just means it was shit the first time, but since you didn't "get it" you had to slog through it a second time, and thanks to being a little more familiar with the text you pretend to notice new things that make it not-shit

>>8954535
Reread the first chapter, which mentions some events after the end of the novel in passing. Everything else is just hinted at and requires extrapolation and addition. E.g., there are some hints that Orin beat Hal &co to Himself's grave and got the master copy of the Entertainment, thereafter starting the distribution by sending a copy (recall that he is at the post office during one phonecall with Hal) to the medical attache (one of his mother's lovers, mind you). There's a ton of stuff like this just hinted at, not fully explicit. I'm not sure it warrants a full reread, but be sure to Google it and see what the key pages are that others point to and try to connect some dots and build a picture for yourself.

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>>8954528
fixed it for you

>>8954541
The wraith is the narrator. He can read everyone's mind and jump forward and backward in time. The endnotes are not endnotes, they are one of several devices intended to create the impression of what it would be like for a human mind to be inundated with omniscience. They create the impression of lots of thoughts happening at the same time. The wraith explains all this in the text itself. It is not an interpretation.

The mach fighter and Johnny G's obsession with nuclear missiles, combined with Tine's plan to mass-mail cartridges of the safety warning, strongly imply that the master of IJ got copied and mass released, and the world ended in a nuclear holocaust similar to the Eschaton. There is also a note that Glad was the last ever year of subsidized time.

It's all in the archive. "Wraith" and "narrator."