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Matt Starr
is 38% done
This has got to be the one of the least real books I’ve ever read. I see what Wikipedia means by post-postmodernism.
“Sports is nationalism is fascism,” yeah, only in the dreamworld you made, Wallace.
Also, EVERY character is absurdly eloquent. The prose and the dialogue is the exact same style.
— Sep 19, 2022 04:43PM
“Sports is nationalism is fascism,” yeah, only in the dreamworld you made, Wallace.
Also, EVERY character is absurdly eloquent. The prose and the dialogue is the exact same style.
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Matt Starr
is 55% done
The only place the Infinite Jest itself is continually present is with the Albertan terrorist scenes.
Which are told in the footnotes.
— Sep 21, 2022 11:54AM
Which are told in the footnotes.
Matt Starr
is 7% done
I saw a clip of an interview with David Foster Wallace where he credited David Lynch’s show Twin Peaks for being an inspiration for this epic.
Yep, I can tell.
— Sep 16, 2022 12:54PM
Yep, I can tell.
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And thus begins a journey I’ve wanted to take since my sophomore year of college
— Sep 15, 2022 02:01PM