... we came in?
I finished reading last night and have to say I harbor deeply mixed feelings about what this book means, what it is about. I tried to take Steve's advice to heart and read it as a landscape or as like a helicopter ride over a strange and fascinating alien place, taking in the details and soaking in the local color. At the same time
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Red herring, though, I'm not sure. I don't see any of these ideas as being mutually exclusive, however I take your point about the escapist nature of all books. Still, I see connections between the entertainments/the creator of them and Infi-Jest/the creator of it. And it seems to be, at least in some pages, self-referential. So there.
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No, I haven't seen it. Is it good? Do they talk about Infinite Jest in it?
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But you should go see it. It has nothing to do with IJ, except that it's good, and Mark Whitaker (Damon's character" is as exasperating as DFW's book. But to everyone else, not the reader/viewer.
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I enjoyed it. And yes, he's as exasperating as DFW--I wonder if DFW has a history of bi-polar disorder in his family. that would explain a few things.
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