Infinite Jest
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Started reading March 23, 2024
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C he says PT is a fucking dicksucking fag queer and a proven cheeseater and wed’ fucked up his map and Cheese and Lolasisters’ map in a beef and didnt’ crew with fags since aprox the autum period.
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‘So you go around with this image of me sitting around during the day masturbating, is what you’re saying.’
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Maybe a sideline in unscented lubricants.
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legs swinging like a child’s, always feeling like a child in Molly’s chairs,
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The truth is that the hours before a suicide are usually an interval of enormous conceit and self-involvement.
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the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer or something, so that whenever he tumefies he’ll suffer the same order of guilt that your less eccentrically tortured
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the absolute end of her life and beauty running in a kind of stuttered old hand-held 16mm before her eyes, projected against
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What will be that most self-involved of acts, self-cancelling, to lock oneself in Molly Notkin’s bedroom or bath and get so high that she’s going to fall down and stop breathing and turn blue and die, clutching her heart.
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It is the cage that has entered her, somehow.
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She’s lost the ability to lie to herself about being able to quit, or even about enjoying it, still. It no longer delimits and fills the hole. It no longer delimits the hole.
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Film & Film-Cartridge Theory at M.I.T., having cleared the notorious hurdle of
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devastating oral critique of post-millennial Marxist Film-Cartridge Theory from the point of view of Marx himself, Marx as pretend-film-cartridge theorist and scholar.
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Joelle was Orin Incandenza’s only lover for twenty-six months and his father’s optical beloved for twenty-one.
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Jock straps unwashed game after game until they stand up by themselves in the overhead luggage compartments of planes. Bizarrely ritualized dressing, eating, peeing.’
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‘The weird part is I think I’m being followed by… by handicapped people.’
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‘Everybody’s a critic. This wasn’t an aesthetic endeavor.’