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We are starting off the year this year with a brand new series on David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” one of the hardest novels known to literature to finish. (You can likely tell that I am still sick from my cold, so apologies on my cloggy voice during this recording!)
Foreword through The Year of Glad (xii-17)
What did I just listen to? https://www.relevanceofliterature.com/infinite-jest
About DFW: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished
Terminology for this chapter: https://www.relevanceofliterature.com/infinite-jest-1
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Quotes:
“Whereas most religions deify only certain words, Wallace exalted all of them.” (xiii)
“Try to get underway before the godawful heat out there. Though of course it’s a dry heat.” (5)
“But it transcends the mechanics…” (12)
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