Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Klonopin After Expiration

Day 23: It's late, so a quick quote

good thing about David Foster Wallace (and all good literature) is that it is able to express in words something that you sensed but could not stop to make.

"It is curious that the arts in this State United ancient treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as something that is fashionable. Perhaps the case of vestiges of the romantic glorification of Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or boredom contemporary. Perhaps this is due to the fact that here the arts are produced by people tired of the world's most refined, and consumed by younger people who not only consume, but studies in search of clues to go with the times which involves being accepted, admired or included and, therefore, not be alone. Forget the so-called peer pressure. It's more like peer hunger. Or not? We enter a spiritual puberty where we discover that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, caging in the self. Once we reach that age, give or receive anything and use any mask to fit, not to be alone, we, the youth. The American arts are our guide to inclusion. A Practical Guide. We are taught to fabricating masks of ennui and irony tired at an age when the face is ductile enough to take the form of what you wear. And then there is the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentimentality and naivete is not refined. On this continent, a sentiment equals naivete. "

Monday, August 4, 2008

Brazilian Waxed Latinos

Day 22: The Great Concavity

Besides the years and not counted by numbers but they are sponsored and therefore there years as the Year of the Depend Adult Briefs, for me one of the great successes of 'Infinite Jest' when inventing a new world situation parody-key Criticism is the Great Concavity. The Great Concavity is a large area of \u200b\u200bCanada uninhabitable because of large amounts of pollution. Because of this pollution many children were born with skulls softened and there are numerous legends about the wildlife that inhabits this area: it is said that there are insects the size of a Volkswagen, herds of ferocious rats, etc. I have not finished entirely clear the origin of the Great Concavity, but I understood that the contamination was so high that we had to evacuate the area and the president of the ONAN (the union of the nations of North America and hence that the supporters of this new reconfiguration of the land is called ONAN-ist) put special Émfasis that the army provide clothing to children and to fire on all animals with horns, because while there were no nude children or animals with horns, you could not treat it as a refugee, always give a bad image. I love the detail that all waste is now sent through a pitcher at this Great Concavity, since it has to feed, otherwise indescribable and mysterious fauna living in it begin to consume territories are still habitable, ie (paradoxically) has to go feed the Great Concavity to avoid grows.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

I Bit My Lip And Now There Is A White

Day 21: Day 19

Details 'Infinite Jest' personally I love for no apparent reason :

01. So many characters in the book suffer from diseases or have deformities or other physical defects.

02. Mario is the only character in the Academy could be something serious, not mask it with irony. And I love how he loves being in the House because it is a Ennet irony-free zone.

03. The way Mario loves his brother Hal, with an intensity and an almost physical connection.

04. Orin hate, but I like the fact that grammatical mistakes / lexicons that would not do a three years. Not the brightest of the family, but I think it's as mud as to commit these errors, I suspect that initially he did just to annoy his mom and his brother Hal (who are both fans of grammatical correctness), but which is now so accustomed to them that makes them all the time, with everybody, not only with his mom and his brother.

05. Both for the children of the Academy for junkies Ennet House, the institutions in which they reside are a refuge from the outside world the same way as the characters 'The Magic Mountain' the hospital was also a shelter.

06. The park's duck pond is drained each year, which should be a clear homage to 'The Catcher in the Rye', right?

07. The parallels with Hamlet (to be developed later).

Friday, August 1, 2008

What Happens When A Person Is Baptised

Details: A treatise on

As we discussed, probably the main theme (or one of the main issues) of 'Infinite Jest' is addiction in its various forms. Many of the characters are addicted to various kinds of drugs, mainly alcohol (James Incandenza, Don Gatelly) or marijuana (Hal Incandenza, Ken Erdedy, Kate Gompert). But many other types of addiction more atypical. Let's start with Mario, Mario is addicted to the radio program of Madame Psychosis (the name that matches the name of the powerful hallucinogenic drug of the 60 that will evaporate the brain and Hal and Pemulis have achieved and see if they will try). His older brother Orin is addicted to seduce and use women who are mothers (and I agree with Hal, who believes that this should be occasional Oedipal significance). Lenz, having left (more or less) of cocaine, has become addicted to killing animals sadistic way street: It starts with rats, cats and still continuing with dogs, and time has stopped here. He is addicted to violence, but a ritualized violence.

However, I think they are addicted to most of these characters is not so much to the pleasure they can provide the substance to which they are engaged, but rather the ritual to be followed to consume the substance. For example, says Hal enjoys most of her smoking marijuana secret of marijuana itself. Addictions are obsessive-compulsive behaviors and I think what we really are addicted to these characters is obsessive-compulsive routines involving any addiction. I do not know if I explain. It's as if every little obsession that we were an addiction. Avril, the mother of the family Incandenza, is addicted to order, cleanliness and grammatical correctness. CT, the brother of Avril and possible biological father of Mario, I would say he is addicted to work, basically to make times square, an addiction not unlike that of his sister.

Then Little Ewell's obsession to know the meaning of the tattoos of his fellow House Ennet no longer another addiction: you need to know what tattoos mean and never seem to get enough. You could say that Schacht's obsession for hygiene and dental health is an obsession / addiction. And I would say that Marlon Bain superstitious rituals are another obsession / addiction. And surely there are more such cases. I am convinced that all the characters are addicted to something. Maybe on another day continue doing this list.

(By the way, what looks Marlon Bain lived for a time with the family Incandenza like one more? "I smell something fishy here.)