Isn't Infinite Jest just a witty expansion of 'Entropy,'...

[David Kipen]

...with the tennis camp and the halfway house standing in for the effete and
bacchanalian apartments, respectively?

Just a theory,
David


On 8/28/06, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that, hadn't read it. Just started Infinite Jest this weekend.
> I'm about 100 pages in and I don't know whether I'm going to (a) race
> through the rest of the book, love it, recommend it to whoever will
> listen,
> or (b) drop-kick it over the hedge into my least favourite neighbour's
> greenhouse. The interview produces the same ambivalence, the whole thing
> reads like one of his interminable footnotes, a sort of arch parody of
> lit-crit pretentiousness. And if he used the term 'recursion' just one
> more
> time I think I'd have to track him down and give him a slap.
>
>
>
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