Lisa’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

I’ve been reading this literary labyrinth, circumlocutory both in style and content, for the past few months. Despite its complexity I find it impossible to abandon, because I know this is a piece of art. It feels like I need to engage with it, it’s almost consuming me instead of the other way around, much like the actual theme of the book.

[On severe depression]: “It’s like something horrible is about to happen, the most horrible thing you imagine – no, worse than you can imagine because there’s the feeling that there’s something you have to do right away to stop it but you don’t know what it is you have to do, and then it’s happening, too, the whole horrible time, it’s about to happen and also it’s happening, all at the same time.”