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Bonnie Surfus ENG
surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Tue Mar 19 14:04:26 CST 1996
I find IJ laogh-out-loud funny--hysterical!! For the record.
Bonnie
Penny Padgett
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> chris o. writes about a bit in _Infinite Jest_ that made him "howl
> until he cried."
>
> I'm glad someone is finding amusement in _IJ_. I'm about halfway
> through, and so far nary a chuckle. I can't help contrasting this
> to my first experience with _GR_, when I was laughing out loud
> by page 7.
>
> I'll reserve further judgment until I've actually finished _IJ_,
> but I'm sure tempted to do the Lloyd Bentsen thing (was it Bentsen?):
> "David Foster Wallace, I've read Thomas Pynchon. I know Thomas Pynchon.
> And you're no Thomas Pynchon."
>
> (But then again, who else is?)
>
> Penny
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