One thing I love about 'Infinite Jest' (one of the many things I love) is that often does not tell you things directly but that leaves you guess. For example, when the kids of the Academy are looking into the underground tunnels of the Academy a ferocious rat allegedly originating in the Great Concavity are all things that alumni have left there, but also find a microwave oven without a door. None of the children nor the narrator says nothing, but we guess it is the microwave with Incandenza James committed suicide.
But there are also significant revelations that leaves it to be an anecdote. For example, Don Gately while lying delirious in a hospital bed after he has been shot in the shoulder in an epic fight with three Canadians who wanted to Lenz charged because he had loaded his dog, he displayed a spectrum most peculiar. The range brings together a few lurid details, among them that is so detailed that even Don is having hairs in the nose and the fact that Don has their problems and frustrations with words that Don had never heard before. We are never told who this spectrum, but we can guess that this is the same James Incandenza. I do not guessed until the spectrum has previously of death was 90 days sober and then the details had been dropped before they make sense and we have to reread the entire passage to learn that one of the biggest frustrations is that Incandenza James became a helper without dialogue and above had to see his son (we infer that Hal) also became a helper without dialogue and no one else knew of the change.
I love all the nightmares and hallucinations and / or appearances that has Don when in the hospital bed. David Foster Wallace perfectly captures the anguish of the dream world, perfectly captures the anguish that lies in the most trivial facts, in a similar way to which David Lynch in his films. The scariest dream is where Don Gatelly dreams he is in the kitchen of a neighbor's house she had as a little one (a neighbor who was considered crazy by all the other neighbors and ended up hanging), but instead of Joelle is crazy neighbor who tells the main idea is in the film 'Infinite Jest', which Don Gatelly can know nothing, the strange idea that we all killed a woman in the next life is our mother. Noses and secure rare here there is a meaning behind that I can not even guess, but I expect to guess before the end of the book.
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