( Infinite Jest - A Rumination )

That time of year when the sun gets to setting around 8pm or so, a little before. From the living room back home in CT, you get the really spectacular sunsets; even when the daytime sky is cloudless, the evening sky will full with cumuli to catch the red and gold thrown up by the golden semi-orb on its way down ( Read more... )

Some friends and I have taken the summer as an opportunity to wrestle Infinite Jest into submission. I knew a lot going in, mostly about the author, a little bit about the plot (if the massive, baggy, unwieldy thing can be said to have a plot), some of the themes, but mostly the author and his later work, which I'd had the pleasure of reading. I ( Read more... )