Infinite jest barnes and noble5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He has made his presence suffocatingly clear at the readings and rallies and study groups we have attended. Fraught will he be in his pursuit of getting you to understand that there’s just something about him he just gets it (do not read: Wallace gets it, but rather read: he gets it, and further, Wallace was brought into this world solely to serve as a vehicle for his own genius, and really how the conversation (or better, your lives together) should end is you appeasing him in giving him those six words he awaits desperately, parched even despite the skim-milk latte in hand: “I think you get it, too.”) ” He is imagining the sweet satisfaction of the conversation eventually turning to Wallace so that he can unassumingly and extremely mild-manneredly push back his sticky wire glasses and say, “what’d you think of Infinite Jest?” in full, relishing knowledge that you have not read it. Timeless is the adage of he -who-has-read-Infinite-Jest-by-David-Foster-Wallace: he is the brooder on his the leather armchair perch at the Boston Barnes and Noble Starbucks, he is waiting for you to edge past him to grab a straw so that he might be able to flash the cover of his just-purchased Pynchon or, worse, Vonnegut he is, in his mind, already playing out you taking the adjacent armchair, you having “loved The Crying of Lot 49, but not much of it at all”, him chuckling in an knowing, intro-Philosophy way and telling you, “it’s not for everyone. ![]()
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