Washington University lecturer and "Infinite Jest" enthusiast Michael O'Bryan offers up an introduction to David Foster Wallace's encyclopedic novel. Part 2.
This whole series is just really outstanding! Extremely well done, and a handy précis. How long until one or more concordances are published? A la Ulysses?
My mother used to have a list of charcters written down and fill in new ones with their story details as the books progressed to help her memory. I am curious if some of the difficulty with this book is staying on top of" who's who", so to say. I find it infuriating when I start mixing characters and need to backtrack..
Most characters are very distinguished, memorable, lot of artifice into construction, you won’t have a problem tracking characters. The most difficult part of reading this book is some of the mathematics/pharmaceutical argot, and the unusually broad vocabulary.
I get it, it's like a multidimensional web that interconnects all but is separated by dimension, they coincide but never touch, not being bounded by time they can all exist simultaneously and infinitely emerging together and not. paradox. which gives it the possibility to do so.
@@alkmibeats2133he repeated the same thing three or four times. He basically said the sky is blue, the sky is blue, the sky looks blue, the color of the sky is blue, what rhymes with “you” is the color of the sky..
