Not P but DFW: Series Start

[Michael Bailey]

I haven’t read the book; I was put off DFW by what I perceived as a
pervasive anhedonia in _Infinite Jest_ although he did craft some admirable
sentences

I’m also puzzled by “Series Start” - hospitals refer to a series of tests
so maybe that’s an in-house slang for starting such a series?

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 10:05 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace’s *The Broom of the
> System*, Chapter 8, Section e:
>
> “You better get a drip ready. Call up on five and fill them in, Cathy, OK?
> First get the drip.”
> “Shit.”
> “Thanks, you guys. Shorlit, you want to see if he’s got ID?”
> “I’ll roll him over.”
> “It’s pretty much kicked.”
> “Christ, he wet his pants.”
> “I’m going to call up and let Golden know we didn’t murder anybody.”
> “No ID.”
> “Check his chest. A necklace, tags.”
> “Umm . . .”
> “Undo him. It’s OK, it kicked.”
> “I’m gonna go call. Try to find ID, then take him over to *Series Start*.”
>
> What is "Series Start"? Here we are in a hospital, and they are dealing
> with a psychiatric patient.
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