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During the day of the assassination and the three days following, television in the average American home was tuned to the Kennedy funeral ceremonies for almost eight hours a day.
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
The Pale King
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Discussions about David Foster Wallace's posthumous release, The Pale King. ...more
Summer of Jest
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If you've been meaning to read (or re-read) this book—all 1,079 pages of it—then here's a chance to do so before you die, while also being part of a l ...more
Infinite Winter 2016
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Infinite Winter (http://www.infinitewinter.org) is an online book club dedicated to reading David Foster Wallace’s 1,000+ page novel Infinite Jest. Jo ...more
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