Rory Irvine-Alyward’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

‘the same illusion-shattering aesthetic disappointment that, e.g., certain women who always wear makeup give people the first time they ever see them without makeup.’

Novels great but awful lot of eye rolling can’t lie

Have a passing feeling that a lot of the ‘wow he literally predicted the not-so-distant-future!’ writers focused so much on forecasting they forgot to live their own lives in the real world