Any hints, tips and opinions are welcome ...

Henry Musikar gravity at nicom.com
Wed Dec 30 02:19:23 CST 1998


On 30 Dec 98, at 13:56, Geoffrey Jayasekera <jayag at edusy.cpg.com.au> wrote:

> Over the holiday hiatus (i;e; summer hiatus in the southern hemispere!)
> have been reading DFW's Infinite_Jest inbetween times watching the cricket
> (whats that you may very well ask, an Anglo derivative of flannelled fools
> conducting a sporting venture in the blazing summer's mid-day sun!).
> 
> Would appreciate any hints, tips or opinions on this massive tome, am
> using some pages on the net to make the reading more meaningful but ....
> 
> Am finding it at turns immensely 'deep & meaningful', 'truly profound',
> 'belly-aching hilarious', 'absurdly insane', but some of the verbal
> pyrotechnics seem a tad overdone.
> 
> Over to you .....
> 
> Gjay
> ****************************************************************
> Geoffrey Jayasekera
> Ph:
> email: jayag at edusy.cpg.com.au
> 
> " Learning is not compulsory ....neither is survival "
>      - W. Edwards Deming.

If you want to survive on this list, you will need to learn to refrain from 
mentioning DFW....

AsB4,

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