Yet another infinite jest thread

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Pages mentioned. I'm deadly serious.

Go on, I'm mildly interested.

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>>9496871
p. 634: "Hal recalls his brother's late-in-college thing of seeing if he could take a girl out somewhere public and then meet and have covert sex with a whole different girl while still out with the first girl." He got better and better at doing this over his career.
Here's one of the two-page dictionary spreads from Both Flesh and Not, which are 1.) alphabetical 2.) all definitions I legitimately did not know, 3.) mostly nouns, none of which refer to any kind of living animal, except for a couple adjectives, all of which describe the definitions themselves, 4.) get increasingly energetic by the end of the page, with for instance here: a sleeveless undergarment followed by something to do with a bullet followed by some kind of IV device, followed by "canthus" which is about as close as a noun can get to being a body part without actually being a body part. Also notice how "capri pants," which who doesn't know what those are, is just an excuse to mention Mary Tyler Moore and use the words "Dick" and "Dyke."

>>9497119
( and 5.) published posthumously; explained as "a list of words he like and kept updated on his computer" )

>>9496747
you're a druggy and way too into infinite jest for hte wrong reasons. I like your affinity to quoting but relax mofo (for what it's worth i love the book)

>>9497154
:( What are the right reasons?

>>9497119
what are you saying, someone is fucking the person reading the book?

>>9497202
More like how he'd come up with the dryest, least interesting topics for nonfiction essays, and then put in interesting bits for anyone who's familiar with his work. The first girl being any given reader and the second being someone looking for neat autobio or aesthetic work. Maybe look at this this grammar quiz of his, which is not only difficult and instrucive, but takes you through a greeting, descriptions of his early rambling work, minor league alcoholism, then a full half of it is religious stuff, after he got sober and started writing about other people and their problems.

https://101books.net/2011/04/22/the-david-foster-wallace-grammar-quiz/

>>9497237
or maybe he's taking the reader to a place where he can fuck someone else and is laughing at you for being along for the ride

>>9497253
He'd never do that, me and he have a whole special thing, you wouldn't understand

>>9497260
you sound autistic but yo, keep going. i like this theory, dump some other shit - i'm listening.

>>9497260
Keep it up detective bro

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>>9496747
>eat approximately two to four tabs of LSD or 2C compound

>>9497457
For future reference:
>you don't "eat" LSD, you take or "drop" it
>you don't "eat" 2C-x drugs, you take them (or snort them)
Can't attest to your analysis of the book since I haven't read it but your claims that you've done this "enough for the both of us" is an exaggeration, to say the least.

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The line-by-line thing is only fun sometimes, but page-by-page is a lot more reliable. Sometimes he puts so much work into a page that you can see what like lenses he was trying to use, which the guy had a total fetish for chiaroscuro lighting.

Here's one of the best pages in the book: 488, the mathematical center (if you don't count for the footnotes), the only page-long sentence, which ends with the only present-tense human death in the whole book. There are only a couple lines on this page that you can pause at the end of, and none on the second half of the page. It draws you along. Halfway down the page the broom is pushed to half its length, at which point the page gets very pretty and you can start pausing and reading line by line, if you don't want to be cruel to poor Lucien. The lines don't end very nicely but they do start very prettily, now, until the unspeakably pure light on the river Ste-Anne gets interrupted by the broom, again, and Lucien is allowed to die.

>>9497686
I like saying "eat" LSD, it makes it sound like I don't take my drugs very seriously

>>9498024
(you CAN pause, I mean, if you're doing a line-by-line analysis, but it always totally breaks the flow, is what I mean)

>>9498024
this might just be how he wrote. maybe he wrote one page/day, so it all fits together in a special way. i still need a better way to avoid this

>>9498033
It makes you sound like you're full of shit

>>9498087
Hmm but he had the whole manuscript done before he ever sent it to Little, Brown, and it had way more pages then. A better way to avoid what?

>>9498106
):<

>>9498109
to avoid having one day's writing be so 'complete' and so not necessarily as coherent or in the same voice as the next day's as it could be

>>9498033
>>9498106
Also you should definitely take psychedelics seriously. There's a lot you can get out of them if you just focus and don't take them lightly, especially DMT and LSD.

>>9498116
Ohhh. I don't write enough to really know what you mean but I can imagine. Maybe try reading through what you have just written before you pick back up with it the next day?

>>9498119
You saying maybe if I take a quarter sheet and stare at a wall I can learn to not sound like a pompous prick on the internet?

>>9498154
You don't sound pompous you just sound like you don't know what you're talking about. But yes, I used to be an egotistical little shit in high school, then I dropped a bunch of acid and became a much more understanding and sympathetic person in a matter of months. So I think you do stand to gain something from it, not saying you're egotistical just saying everyone has some flaws they can change.