#infinite-jest — Public Fediverse posts

The book club I'm in is doing a poll on what to read next. What does the fediverse think?

#books #reading #dungeoncrawlercarl #mistborn #infinitejest #bookclub #poll #audiobook #eBook

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

The Addiction as a Civilizational Metaphor in Infinite Jest paulopinto.xyz/wiki/literat... #david-foster-wallace #infinite-jest #literature

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

via @wallabag

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

RE: https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertieren-i-de-bibliotheek-en-vol-gas/

Geen tijd of zin om Eindeloos Vertier zelf te lezen, dan mag je ook meelezen met mij.

#eindeloosvertier #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace

Eindeloos Vertieren deel 1. Notities tijdens het lezen. Wat spreekt me aan? Hoe ziet ETA eruit volgens AI? Ik heb het gevraagd.

Michael Silverblatt van het programma Bookworm is de beste literaire interviewer die ooit heb gehoord.

Talking To A. Natasha Joukovsky About Men, Myths, And March Madness

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/talking-to-a-natasha-joukovsky-about-men-myths-and-march-madness

Reading Infinite Jest after two false starts and I've never had to reach for a dictionary this number of time across a page before.
This is thick like treacle.

#reading #InfiniteJest

I'm an #AI hater but I'm interested in what one of these video creator apps would do with the full text (including the end notes) of #InfiniteJest. I hate myself for thinking of it.

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments "I have seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by David Foster Wallace Rating: 4.4/5 (1,611 Reviews) #Essays #Literature #Travel #Tennis #InfiniteJest #Books #BookSky

Amazon

Gister verscheen een Woord van de Vertaler in de Eindeloos Vertier nieuwsbrief. Vertaler Robbert-Jan Henkes vertelt daarin hoe hij een bepaalde betekenis over het hoofd zag. Pas na publicatie zag hij het.

Het was geen typfout. Ook die kunnen er nog in zitten. En hoe dat kan?

Het komt: zo in boekvorm lees je het heel anders dan op je scherm of als uitgeprinte drukproef. Er vallen heel andere […]

Avril never actually asks Mario to keep it down; he does it out of unspoken consideration for her thing about sound.

#InfiniteJest #Reading #DavidFosterWallace

...and though Avril's made it clear that Mario's free at any time to activate and align the Tatsuoka's ghostly-green tuner to whatever he wishes, he keeps the volume so low that he has to be lowered onto a low coffee table and lean in and almost put his ear up against the woofer's tremble and concentrate closely to hear YYY's signal over the conversation in the dining room, which tends to get sort of manically high-pitched toward the end of supper.

#InfiniteJest #Reading #DavidFosterWallace

He really does have to sit right up close to listen to 'Sixty Minutes +/-…’ when he's over at the HmH with C.T. and sometimes Hal at his mother's late suppers, because Avril has some auditory thing about broadcast sound and gets the howling fantods from any voice that does not exit a living corporeal head, ...

#InfiniteJest #Reading #DavidFosterWallace

Those who have read #InfiniteJest knew that eventually all roads would lead to this: ONAN, the "Organization of North American Nations". #DFW #DFWwouldhaveknownwhattosay

Ik keek The End of the Tour. De film uit 2015 gebaseerd op het boek van David Lipsky over zijn week met David Foster Wallace.

Marathe's sniff held disdain. Then in such a case your temple is self and sentiment. Then in such an instance you are a fanatic of desire, a slave to your individual subjective narrow self's sentiments; a citizen of nothing. You become a citizen of nothing. You are by yourself and alone, kneeling to yourself.
A silence ensued this.

#AmReading #InfiniteJest #DavidFosterWallace #Literature

'What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?'

#AmReading #InfiniteJest #DavidFosterWallace #Literature

spoiler alert: this is painfully close to the contents of the Infinite Jest videotape

#InfiniteJest #DavidFosterWallace #Elon #ElonMusk #Grok #X