Jonah’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

The way this book describes depression is really visceral and real, I especially like the phrase "hell for one"

"And when Ferocious Francis G. and the White Flaggers presented him, on the September Sunday that marked his first year sober, with a faultlessly baked and heavily frosted-one candle cake, Don Barely cried in front of nonrelatives for the first time in his life. He now denies that he actually did cry, saying something about candle-fumes in his eye. But he did."

"The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you."

MY BABY HAS SIX EYES AND BASICALLY NO SKULL

Really fucking hard to read period of like twenty pages btw, not because he's being verbose it's just so dark and depressing

"Pemulis invites Ingersoll to do something anatomically impossible. Kittenplan has been trembling and feeling at the back of her vein-laced head and looking across the Mediterranean at Ingersoll like somebody who knows they'll go to prison for what they want to do. Axford posits certain very unlikely physical positions under which what Pemulis told Ingersoll to do to himself wouldn't be totally impossible."

6 days in and I'm a quarter done fucking finally

"And he makes a show of what he reads... Until Annie Parrot had to tell him not to bring it down anymore because it was fucking with a Morris Hanley's mind. At which juncture he quit reading and started talking, making everybody nostalgic for when he just sat there and read."