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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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