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This could apply to any one of the 1,079 pages. Actually I alternated between 'what the FUCK is going on' and 'fuck that is the most depressing thing I have ever read'

Ell wrote: "This could apply to any one of the 1,079 pages. Actually I alternated between 'what the FUCK is going on' and 'fuck that is the most depressing thing I have ever read'"

Feeling this in my bones! I'm beginning to think DFW only put in the ocassional self-contained (and absurdly funny) stories in there so the readers don't, well, blow their own maps off.

He really wanted us to *feel* the howling fantods.

Would that be the Quebec separatists, the acid throwing, the microwave incident, the incest themes, the drugs, the ghost ….?
The funny thing is I can list those plot points and give away none of the book.

cycads and ferns wrote: "Would that be the Quebec separatists, the acid throwing, the microwave incident, the incest themes, the drugs, the ghost ….?
The funny thing is I can list those plot points and give away none of th..."

Ah, plot...such a slippery thing.