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Shadow Filter: The Cruelty of Fate, and The Kindness of Strangers
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Humor from the shadows. Sunday, March 4, 2012. The Cruelty of Fate, and The Kindness of Strangers. My Mum had been home for a while, but she still had her Halo brace. Anyway, there's a videogame magazine in Australia called Hyper. After writing them a letter of thanks, I hooked it up, and got Mum to start playing. So if ANYONE tries to tell you games are a waste of time, make that idiot read this, and then tell them to try and make that same argument. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hello all, just a...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » How to Read Infinite Jest
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Laquo; The Schedule. How to Read Infinite Jest. The following was drafted by Matt Bucher (maintainer of the wallace-l listserv and author of this post. And augmented by input from Nick Maniatis (administrator of The Howling Fantods. A site devoted to DFW), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (professor at Pomona College, who teaches a course entitled David Foster Wallace. There’s no wrong way to read. Front-to-back, upside-down, cut in half. Or skipping around. But here are a few tips for the Infinite Jester. Namel...
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Infinite Summer » Guides
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Laquo; Previous Entries. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. [.]. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? This is th...
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Infinite Summer » Matthew Baldwin
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Laquo; Previous Entries. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. [.]. Sincerely Yours, David Foster Wallace. Join the Tunnel Club. This is cross-posted to the forums. We’ll be featuring guests for the remainder of the week, but I’m approp...As details em...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » The End
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Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. Early in Infinite Summer, we received an email from a participant (who requested anonymity):. I went to a David Foster Wallace talk/autograph signing in Boston years ago. I asked him to write a message of congratulations to the reader on the final page. I thought this would motivate me to re-read IJ, since his congratulatory note would be waiting at the end. September 21, 2009 at 12:09 pm. September 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm. September 21, 2009 at 4:47 pm. This hexagram ...
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Infinite Summer » Rountables
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Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? Avery Edison: It’s definitely got me reading books again, which is marvelous. I hadn’t realized how much the internet had affected my ability to just sit down and read a book, and — [.]. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. Matthew Baldwin: I found the ending to be incr...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. This is the third of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Looking back, do parts of the novel that seemed superfluous at the time now make sense? I’m starting to understand that even if one section doesn’t give us any new information or make sense as a part of the story, it’s still important because it builds IJ. 8216;s tone. Infinite Jest.
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? It’s definitely got me reading books again, which is marvelous. I hadn’t realized how much the internet had affected my ability to just sit down and read a book, and — looking back — the first half of IJ. It…”) I’ve tried to quit a few times before, on an almost annual basis...I agree with Av...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Acknowledgements
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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. Raquo; Infinite Index. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. I’m a little unclear on how that happened, but I could not be more appreciative. Eden M. Kennedy’s. Co-authored by Alice Bradley. And his essays have ...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
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Laquo; The End. Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. This is the first of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: How about that ending, huh? Closing-credits-style litany of what happens to all the characters in the future (“Ann Kittenplan became a marketing director for NoCoat Incorporated …”). Eden M. Kennedy. Gately becomes a government actuary! Lenz gets eaten by bears! Then I slept for about nine hours. The “work ...
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