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addiction Day 18: Personality (I)

In 'Infinite Jest' inevitably there are plenty characters, so many that sometimes even now I fuss. For example, recovering addicts confuse the Ennet House and I can not tell the students of the Academy of Tennis, with the exception of Hal, Pemulis and Schacht. I love Schacht, a child with Crohn's disease and knee fucked has agreed to never be dedicated to tennis and perhaps this is why it is the only children placed who only occasionally as a drink and let ass? Hal also really like me. How can I not go down well a child who has memorized the dictionary to impress your mom? And although I always tend to fall ill the popular kids who are the jokers and the leaders of the gang, also I like Pemulis. I guess I like him because he is not bright or tennis or academically (although I suspect the latter is only because it is a downright lazy.) And I guess I also like him because he Curra, is an active character (not as Hal), and probably also because I like you so afraid to be expelled, probably because his family are the companions of the Academy and will not return his biological family (because I remember that was dysfunctional in some way or another, but do not know for sure, because the truth is that all children come from dysfunctional families to one degree or another), and this makes it vulnerable.

Ah, and distinction to John Wayne. And so strong that John Wayne is having an affair with Hal's mother! Oh, God, poor Hal, who does not find out, not noticing, because if not, so love of his mother who is, what happens fatal, the poor. And I guess another reason why I like Pemulis is because when the pair catches red-handed acts as if it were normal in the world and says "I'll save everyone time and not ask if I'm interrupting something." I follow his example and not comment on the fact that Hal's mother has made to disguise John Wayne football player and his eldest son, Orin, is just a football player. Ahem.

Avril, the mother of Hal, a kind Gertrude of Hamlet , supercooled, I like fatal. I guess it's because I see through the eyes of her children and her late husband, and I see it as being selfish, which I doubt he is capable of loving another person other than herself. Still, I want to know more about her and her promiscuity. But who really annoys me is Joelle, the prettiest girl on this planet. I have a hobby as much as it is Don Gately. And this is a lot of mania (but I fear that this initial craze has Don does not evolve into something else, no, please not happen). I do not like bad because I am a witch and she is beautiful. It is a pedantic attention-seeking ("Attempted suicide in the middle of a party? Not bother me) And in this case does not want to hear about it and the pages he devotes the book inevitably make me heavy.

Something that fascinates me is that the characters are all connected. Some will find it a joke that a character that appears in the first 50 pages of the book does not back out until 500 pages later, but to me it seems a masterstroke. Erdedy Ken is the guy at first, locked in his house, waiting impatiently for them to bring marijuana and is 500 pages not appear and then reappear in the Ennet House. Same with Tony Roy, who only comes out at first then is referred to as camel and then exit at a meeting of Addicts Anonymous and is about to head off precisely Erdedy Ken. In the House Ennet also Bruce Green, who is the husband of the woman who had to bring the marijuana to Ken Erdedy the beginning of the book. For that, all the characters are connected and this gives the book a feeling of perfect unity.

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Day 17: Hilarity

I said yesterday that David Foster Wallace you're looking for empathy. But to say that it is still a way to simplify everything. True seeking empathy and sometimes there are fragments very hard and very sad, but sometimes there are fragments very hard and very sad but are deliriously and grotesquely fun. Is the fragment of the promising young tennis can not withstand the pressure of finally winning and when you come home after celebrating, take a glass of Nesquick cyanide, falls to the kitchen floor, his father was awakened by the noise, seeing him makes it just word of mouth and swallowing cyanide Nesquick remains still in the mouth of his son, falls to the floor in the kitchen, the mother is awakened by the noise and saw them practicing their mouth mouth, just swallowing cyanide remains of Nesquick and dropped, and the same goes for the other six children in the family. It is grotesque and delirious and fun.

But even I laughed more with the story of the alcoholic anonymous wished to apologize for his alcoholism by telling his story of an unhappy childhood, she was an adopted child and had a biological sister who was the daughter of his adoptive parents, but had cerebral palsy or something and all I did was drool, the adopted daughter had to lead to drooling sister always coming out with his friends or party, because his parents wanted him to be treated like a normal child. And I almost feel bad because it makes me laugh so much, but it does not stop here: every night the father enters the room the two sisters and put a wig on his biological daughter, Raquel Welch calls and abused, while adopted daughter is pretending to sleep in the next bed. Told it seems cruel and without any grace, but grace is the way it has. It really is hilarious. Come on, what happens is that she became an alcoholic because his father abused her, but his adoptive sister. Not so much that 'Infinite Jest' is sometimes sad and sometimes hilarious, I would rather say that it is both at once.

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Day 16: Empathy

probably true that all the work of David Foster Wallace's focus on empathy. Not so much to get readers to empathize with the characters in his works, but rather that DFW gets himself feel genuine empathy for the characters he creates. Clearly, empathy by the reader comes later, but first must come from the writer. While DFW is a good home schooled child, whose parents are both university professors in 'Infinite Jest' get put on the skin of drug abusers have lowered the worst of hells. Almost hard to believe that he is the perfect intellectual neurotic guilt upper class can get under the skin (for example) of a woman addicted to cocaine that stand on the floor of a dirty motel a fetus not come into being, faceless, and then gets a sense of responsibility, wrapped in a blanket and carries it always with him as if he were alive, although increasingly more and more odor, and insects after her. But it gets. And he never described from outside but from within the same characters. Is embodied in his characters. So topic will be what Flaubert said that "Madame Bovary is me", but as taught 'Infinite Jest' sometimes topics are not only successful but also true. In his essays the same thing happens: his essays are nothing more than attempts to understand fully worlds away from him (luxury cruises, film porno, right-wing talk radio, the campaign of Senator McCain, etc.) And this willingness to empathize makes it one of the most honest writers I've ever read.

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Day 14: Can be

Could it be that one of the issues 'Infinite Jest' is freedom of choice, which in reality is so limited that practically is just an illusion? Maybe. Do not think it's just that I have read too much theater of the absurd lately and I see what I see. Children Enfield Academy faces two possibilities when you finish your stay: 1) Try to enter the professional circuit, vaccinated and touring side tournament for third world countries hoping to climb in the rankings, or 2) Leave the tennis as a career and confined to college tennis. Both are equally harmful to the pride and does not depend on themselves to choose. Similarly, all the routines and schedules squared Academy will leave little room for freedom of choice. Even so it is a rebellion, drugs, nor choose: it is the only outlet they have.

addicts Ennet The House of course are not free: the first being enslaved by the material and if they can overcome their addiction will be slaves of philosophy full of platitudes of Alcoholics Anonymous. And the routines and schedules Ennet House are as stringent as the Enfield Academy. Not really choose anything. As much choose the substance you are addicted. And none of us choose the entertainment that we do. We

passive beings who accept what they kick us out. So when a character is the samizdat, the famous film shot James Incandenza and supposedly provides such a pleasure ecstatic one dies, no one can resist it, come and see her again, and die happy anesthetized, misled to believe that they have used their freedom of choice. That is why the radical Quebec wheelchair urges us to step out of line and we really choose something, not the person we fall in love, or entertainment that hooked us, nor the substance to we get addicted, because this is not really a choice: the choices are too limited to be considered a real choice. But I doubt that any character in this novel can really get to choose something. All they can do nothing more than letting go.

And look like I have subtly related drug addiction and entertainment. Could this be like another key theme of the book? Maybe.

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Day 13: The Eschaton

In 'Infinite Jest' more than 20 pages devoted to describing and explaining the rules of a game a game of fiction, the Eschaton, which is probably even more complicated than Guyball . For starters, the regulation is the length of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and know who has won you have to use complicated mathematical formulas taking into account a large number of varied factors. To sum it up you could say that is a strategy game in which you throw tennis balls to represent warheads. It takes the space of three tennis courts representing the world map. The game is a tradition at the Academy Enfield, nobody knows who invented it, and is compared to chess by high doses of concentration required. And if at first it is somewhat frustrating to read about the rules, because I understood almost nothing more frustrating is to assist the description of a game that takes place during the Day of Interdependence. I do not understand what he was painting everything in the novel, and thought it was an episode entirely dispensable, but again I realized that I have never to lose faith in DFW, there's always a reason behind everything. This game, a game as rational and intellectual, just leading to a real battle. Oh, yes, DFW everything always makes sense. A pitched battle in which young children (at last) are given to acts of cruelty towards the weakest while the adults watch it and do nothing, in part because they can not avoid weak child mania. And is that the Enfield Academy and began to worry me because it seemed an idyllic place where children, all wonders of sport and studies, all lived in perfect harmony, but in this scene that culminates in a masterful way is that chaos and cruelty is always within us all.

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Day 11: Untitled

I survived a footnote on page 20 pages in length. I do not think anyone can say.

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Day 10: Say 333

I have overcome the psychological barrier on page 333, that is, I have already exceeded 1 / 3 of the book. I have no idea yet what the argument or by where to get the thing. It is true that things happen, but in reality nothing happens. Seems to have been established that the novel focuses on two sites, the Enfield Tennis Academy and Ennet House, a detox center, which geographically are four steps from one another. In the first place children are placed in the second adults try to overcome their addictions. And I have a hunch that some of the children end up in the center in the future. At the moment, but basically we have descriptions of the operation of the two centers, their routines and characters that inhabit them, but nothing resembling a plot. This is not the least stressed me. Not that DFW does not tell you anything what happens is that you are only still in the planning and is presenting the situation and learn new things each page. For example, I've learned how you have to do if you want to commit suicide by sticking their head in the microwave. Is more complex than it appears, you must have advanced knowledge of yourself, because you have to make a hole in the door of the microwave, because if you do not shut the door, you are not going to turn on the device, but then you have to cover aluminum foil with a piece that stands between your neck and the hole, because the microwave to function must be tightly closed. But the best scene is when Hal, the youngest son, arrives home says the house smells good, you get hungry and will see what it's been cooked in the kitchen, and then finds his father. What most delicious black humor.

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Day 9: Confessions

Reading 'Infinite Jest' I can not help thinking how much of himself put David Foster Wallace novel. And especially how much he's in Hal Incandenza. I can not avoid this comparison because Hal's mother is a stickler for grammar subtly in a passive-aggressive push their children to achieve academic success (especially in the field of grammar) that she can be proud. And, as it has in the notes DFW footer trial compilation of the dictionary 'Let's talk locusts , his mother in real life was spitting. This attempt to find details of the real life of the writers in his works is something I usually do not hardly ever. Normally I'm interested in works and not the writers. This is because I can not fall in love with many writers as writers, but I just am in love with a writer as a person and this is David Foster Wallace, but it is impossible to read his essays and not love someone as neurotic as he is. Then, there are few writers that I've come to love, but which I'd be her friend for life, basically Franz Kafka (because I recognize so much in his diaries and letters that I'm afraid) and Nick Hornby (because it has to be a piece of bread, funny, candid and witty). And that's enough confessions for today.

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Day 8: Breaking purposes

I am perfectly aware that I did not write yesterday. Well, I've resisted writing a daily six days. I thought it would break even this trend. In addition, it was Sunday and I guess even yours truly deserved a holiday. The Sundays are so slow and lazy that one does not feel like doing anything. In fact, also I have to confess that this weekend I have fulfilled my purpose of reading forty pages daily. Only I have read 25. But is that traditionally the weekend I always read less and told that if I read 40 pages each day minus weekends would be 25 per day, this gave a total of 250 pages per week and four weeks could also finish the book, because 250 times 4 is 1000 and the book, in fact, has 1000 pages if you do not have the notes in a footnote. The problem is that for two days now I have lost my reading rate, now today I find that horror is costing me back to my old rhythm and do not know if before the day is over I can reach the 40-page previews. Wish me luck.

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Day 6: This book is very random

"For Please learn to sleep with a perpetual sunburn. Wait nightmares. They come with the territory. Try to accept them. Let them teach you. Keep a flashlight beside the bed. Help with dreams. "

Notice that the vocation of 'Infinite Jest' is to be a complete novel, because as you go along is introducing several texts from different backgrounds who try to convey a sense that we are being given an overall view about a future society which is really ours. I tell you now that within a few years years will not be called by number but by the commercial product that the sponsors. soon reach Year of the Depend Adult Briefs. Something I think is one of many occurrences that have this brilliant book.

For example, we find a list of terrorist groups in Quebec, transcripts of therapy sessions at a detoxification center, a transcription of an award-winning short Incandenza Mario told by his brother Hal, a work of the Hal Incandenza written by a class on the evolution of the heroes in the police series, some other e-mail, an essay on why the failed screen phones, etc. And now I do not mind the work is so scattered, so kaleidoscopic. On the contrary, I love it. It seems I'm hooked. I feel the pressing need but nice to take advantage of the slightest moment to read a few lines, which are few. Of course, every time I'm freaking out more about what they are demanding the Enfield Tennis Academy, both academically and tennis.

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Day 5: Deaths in DFW always tragicomic

Having come almost to page 200 (for the moment everything goes according to plan pre-established), the three deaths witnessed in 'Infinite Jest' tragicomic have been no exception. Is the man with a cold, a horse that died bound and gagged by some thieves who broke into the house because with the cold, was unable breathing through the nose and drowned after a slow agony described in considerable detail. Is the drug addict who stopped him a trap, which actually was not by him but by his partner, and instead of selling ordinary drug gave her a substance that caused him to die in spasms of pain and bleeding from the eyes to one point he even went out and hung her optic nerve. It is so nice gore DFW. And finally there is the woman with an artificial heart he carried in a bag. He spent a transvestite thief (the dead druggie friend, it's good to see that everything is connected in this novel) and stole her bag in one sitting. The woman ran after of him yelling "Stop him, has stolen my heart!" And all the people were doing nothing Descojonado, until she fell to the floor collapsed. From this we learn that life DFW is not only absurd but also that death can be. Also mentioned in passing the death of James Incandeza, who committed suicide by sticking their head in a microwave and I hope later we count this death in detail. If there is someone out there, I do not look bad, we're all just as morbid.

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Day 4: We came here to talk about the book!

"When they arrive, always Schtitt who just experimenting with some exotic ice cream. Mario always cowers and choose the good old chocolate when it comes time to decide at the counter. Carried away by that which is better know the flavor you like. "

Being as I'm on page 148 yet I have no idea what's going 'Infinite Jest' but do not stress for nothing. I trust in DFW and I know there will come a time when everything will start falling into place. At the moment I feel that the core of the novel is the Enfield Tennis Academy and the family that runs it, the family Incandenza. And I have the intuition that all events that appear marginal and not connected to this core actually yes they are, as be discovered when the time comes. If you ask me the theme of the novel would probably talk about fear, loneliness, paranoia and all addictions. There are a lot of characters addicted to recreational drugs and insurance is not free.

Big fragments are the type (still I have no idea who may be) that he hopes will bring marijuana at home and is anxious and on the verge of collapse, the student of the Academy who is delirious because of fever and a buzz in that land of nightmare where you stand when you're not awake but not asleep, and horrific images that have to witness the big brother of the Incandenza: flying cockroaches that eat the lining of the eyes of the children and leave them blind, floods to unearth the dead in the cemetery and dragged through the streets, etc.

And they are stunning scenes, which are well described because no one can know as well as DFW describe how the mind and logic, and the doubts and fears of a person from a perspective that think what you are describing from the inside. For David Foster Wallace writes as people write, even as people talk, but as people think. And reading it is like a guest in your brain. And your brain is a fascinating place.

But I also loved 'The first and only romantic experience, however remote, Mario Incandenza to date. " Because it is so funny and so sad at the same time from the beginning feel a great tenderness for Mario. The poor brother is not considered functional by his mother, because it is deformed and sick, but still do not know how far or how. But it's really not hard to see that others are not: Orin, professional soccer player, is a paranoid-schizophrenic and Hal, the child prodigy of tennis and school, have problems of relationship and stark raving mad attacks. There's nothing like a dysfunctional family in a novel of 1000 pages.