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  1. "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 thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

  2. "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 thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

  3. "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 thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

  4. "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 thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

  5. "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 thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

  6. 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!

  7. 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."

    chiply.dev/post-reperspectiviz

  8. 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 […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/weten-we-hoe-we-eindeloos-vertier-moeten-lezen/ #DavidFosterWallace #EindeloosVertier #HermioneHoby #InfiniteJest #RobbertJanHenkes
  9. Avril never actually asks Mario to keep it down; he does it out of unspoken consideration for her thing about sound.

    #InfiniteJest #Reading #DavidFosterWallace

  10. ...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

  11. 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

  12. Begin 2026 verschijnt de Nederlandse vertaling van Infinite Jest, het meesterwerk van David Foster Wallace. En het gaat Eindeloos Vertier heten. Vertaald door Robbert-Jan Henkes en uitgegeven door Koppernik.

    https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertier-van-david-foster-wallace/

    #DavidFosterWallace #DFW #EindeloosVertier #InfiniteJest #Koppernik

  13. David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷‍♂️📚
    thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubi #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated

  14. De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

    Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

    #AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

  15. De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

    Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

    #AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

  16. De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

    Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

    #AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

  17. De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

    Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

    https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

    #AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

  18. I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
    A lot of these descriptions fit me:
    "epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
    Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else?