Maggie’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

Explained to the plot concisely (including the Québécois separatist parts) to SpaceX engineer at bar which is a good sign. Though I’ve stalled at the granularities-of-morning-drills section. Still preferable to Eschaton. SORRY. Judging by Reddit I’m the only one not in this for bullshit. More AA pls. Not a love connect w SpaceX despite incoming IPO check (looking for a patron); he’s reading “Red Rising”

I knoww I knowww I have no reason to update after +150 pages but I just have to say that first Joelle Van Dyne chapter is probably the best piece of writing I’ve read in a long while and made a major, seemingly permanent impact. Not to mention the chapter of lessons learned in drug detox and recovery — “That, perversely, it is more fun to want something than to have it” and many more. Sooooo in it now.

So profoundly suicidal. Like just totally suffused with suicidal ideation and despondency. But the thing is it’s right about everything. The world has destroyed itself in the way that only an incredibly depressed person could have predicted. And at points the book actually imagines things better than how they turned out. Magically also pretty engaging and fun. I like the tone.

Begin again… read again about the guy addicted to weed…

He thinks he’s so fucking funny…

Bravely fake reading this by using it as my bedtime audiobook. >90% chance of failure but that’s never stopped me before