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I Read Infinite Jest

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I recently watched the video I tried doing nothing on an 18 hour flight, in which YouTube creator @BWong challenges himself to spend back-to-back flights doing absolutely nothing: not even talking to his parents beside him or sleeping. Just sitting in his seat staring blankly ahead, for 18 hours straight. In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace writes: Beyond the content of Infinite Jest, there is its form: a sprawling, dense, 1,000 page postmodern novel. A book which asserts itself as a physical object. Usually bright blue and neon-yellow, it's the most prominent item on any reader's bookshelf. It's hard to read it in public even without feeling at least somewhat self-conscious. David Foster Wallace believes in the importance of the novel: of sitting quietely alone and working through a difficult text. Of inhabiting the mind of another in a way that no other art form allows you to do. Infinite Jest is a great book, but there's a funny sense that its story is almost secondary to its pri

I read Infinite Jest April 13, 2025 I recently watched the video " I tried doing nothing on an 18 hour flight ," in which YouTube creator @BWong challenges himself to spend back-to-back flights doing absolutely nothing: not even talking to his parents beside him or sleeping. Just sitting in his seat staring blankly ahead, for eighteen hours straight. In The Pale King , David Foster Wallace writes: It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you can't accomplish. Beyond the content of Infinite Jest , there is its form: a sprawling, dense, thousand-page

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