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“....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.”
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“There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.”
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“As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― A Long Way Down
― A Long Way Down
Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
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