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Sunk-cost fallacy-ing this shit so hard. I'm not convinced I'm gonna get anything more out of it but I've sunk so much effort in. His thesis is compelling. His elaborations? Slow, divergent, repetitive. It's very beautiful at times tbf.

I am deeply lost he’s just babbling

I am never going to finish this im reading it as an epub on my phone and the pages are too small

DFW predicts my flight to New England being delayed for bad weather, among other things.

So close

This is just Heraclitus again

The jest is that I’m a month in and there are still ~600 pages left somehow. I love it though. I’m so happy this book exists.

Mmmm leather cover mmmm I stole this book

So not to be your stereotypical pseudo intellectual white boy with an English BA but this shit goes so unbelievably hard. The thing that really gets me is how DFW plays with your attention; the nonstop interleaving of at first completely disparat plot threads + 16 page long endnotes prevents a linear reading experience. You just gotta stew in it. Genuinely hilarious as well. Tennis bits are so Orson Scott Card coded.

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