Saturday, August 9, 2008

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Day 27: Dreams and microwave spectra.

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.

Friday, August 8, 2008

How Much Is To Lease Land

Day 26: Michael Pemulis

Han Pemulis kick given. He saw it coming, but has given me much pain Oh, poor Mickey. At least it has laid off big: the reason I was expelled from the academy is to provide a hallucinogenic drug to John Wayne. Has been inadvertently because everything has been mixing jars: John Wayne just wanted a pain reliever but has ended up taking the drug had to be taken Pemulis himself to be fit to face training game Freer. Clear that Michael felt that he did indeed. And John Wayne, number one of the Academy, the stolid and perfect John Wayne, not used to drugs, he has been the pot and ended up cracking around the world through the PA Academy's internal. Spectacular. Even more than the time that Pemulis put acid in the beverage of your opponent in order to qualify for a tournament. A pity that give the kick Pemulis because it is a character that I love. Despite the casting drug into the drink of his opponents, is someone noble, a friend of his friends (especially Hal) and compassionate: I love your last action in the Academy, after drugging John Wayne, is that of try to comfort a small boy crying in the locker room just because "everything is false." Besides the buzz of John Wayne, some hilarious scenes that have happened recently are: Hal misguided support group meeting (and instead of ending in a Narcotics Anonymous in a rare just for grown men who are still traumatized because their parents do not want), Orin killing his mother's dog (because it was so placed that caught the car and did not realize that the dog was tied to the fender and was dragged until it became an amorphous piece of meat), the last Thanksgiving dinner at the home of the parents of Joelle with Orin as a guest (which is just knowing that his father has always been in love with his daughter, the mother commits suicide by jumping into the garbage disposer and Joelle is distorted because her mother wanted to throw acid on her father but failed in the attempt). This book every time I think more fun. And on a more serious, more and more I see that one of the main themes of this book is the relationship between parents and children, including incest and abuse.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Farewell Card Wording

Day 25: Beneath the Surface

Joelle I said earlier that not one of my favorite characters precisely, but the scene of the Thanksgiving dinner where Orin presents the whole family Incandenza Joelle and his girlfriend loved it. As in most scenes 'Infinite Jest' not happen a lot and the reader must try to find the hidden meaning behind these scenes trivial. It's about looking without knowing what you're looking for. And can you finish it finding more of you end up telling of the novel. Joelle is that Avril, Incandenza Mommy, there's something you do not like, which makes the hair stand on end, but do not know what to say, because Avril is perfectly polite, friendly and does not even seem false. We, the readers, Avril probably also put us the creeps and we do not know why. Yes, it's cool with your kids, but not only that. What puzzles me most is that we have no evidence or will your children or you do not want them. Also from the beginning know that something is wrong to Hal, who is not happy, but not even a sample of it, but we intuit could not explain why.

I think one of the great virtues of David Foster Wallace is to transmit a series of intuitions or feelings that can not be explained rationally. DFW is always ambiguous and subtle. DFW he describes the scenes hinting that underneath there is more than what you see, but it's our job to determine what lies beneath. That is why I love it, because it treats the reader as a passive, but as one asset that has to do their part to interpret the novel. I'm sure that if several people are wondering what's going 'Infinite Jest' responses vary much: they coincide with some of the key issues (addiction, entertainment), but would many responses that would be really mixed. And that is admirable in a work.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Day 24: Irony

Two of the trials of David Foster Wallace who helped me understand more David Foster Wallace (ironically or not) are two trials of two other authors: Kafka and Dostoevsky, who happen to be two of my favorite writers. Can be found in the book 'Let's lobsters' and these are two great tests you not only spread a irresistible desire to read (or reread, if necessary) these two authors but also give a view new two authors who seem that everything has been said. In the essay on Dostoevsky, DFW argues that today if someone wrote as Dostoevsky would laugh in their faces, because Dostoevsky is a serious writer who deals with serious themes, talk philosophy and religion in a serious and deep, and we are accustomed to perpetual cynicism, to wear a mask of irony prevents us to take nothing seriously. In the essay on Kafka, Kafka argues that DFW is dark and depressing, but it also has a hilarious sense of humor. Kafka is the perfect example of that can be serious and far-reaching yet fun. (And I also think with Dostoevsky's the same: I laugh a lot by reading Dostoyevsky.) And basically what it purports to DFW is to get this: make a play but also fun serious. Dose low-key irony is fine and literature helps us to move away from sentimentality, but the irony in preventing excessive doses displayed some feeling, which is not the same as sentimentality, but sometimes it seems that we want to believe it. And DFW's work is this: a struggle to escape both the irony and sentimentalism simple pure aconseguir a struggle for the right balance between humor and sentiment.