"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.
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