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Infinite Jest Re/Read - 2015
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Page numbers are from the Back Bay Books 2006 edition. I’ve included some beginning text at each of the break points for those who are using ereaders. As you probably already know, in addition to the 981 pages that comprise this novel, Wallace includes 98 pages of numbered end notes. There are superscript numbers scattered throughout the novel indicating where to break and read the referenced end note. Get your bookmarks ready…
Week One – March 16, 2015
Page 3 – 109
Year of Glad "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair.”
Week Two – March 23, 2015
Page 109 – 198
Begins: 3 NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U. "'Because none of them really meant any of it,’ Hal tells Kent Blott.”
Week Three – March 30, 2015
Page 198 – 299
Begins: “6 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT 1610h. Weight Room.”
Week Four – April 6, 2015
Page 299 – 418
Begins: 14 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT "Poor Tony Krause had a seizure on the T.”
Week Five – April 13, 2015
Page 418 – 491
Begins: “30 APRIL / 1 MAY YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT Marathe did not quite sleep.”
Week Six – April 20, 2015
Page 491 – 593
Begins: WINTER, B.S. 1963, SEPULVEDA CA "I remember I was eating lunch and reading something dull by Bazin when my father came into the kitchen”
Week Seven – April 27, 2015
Page 593 – 698
Begins: “Live-in Staffers’ duties are divided pretty evenly between the picayune and the unpleasant.”
Week Eight – May 4, 2015
Page 698 – 808
Begins: 14 NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT “Ms. Ruth van Cleve’s first day off new residents’ three-day House Restriction.”
Week Nine – May 11, 2015
Page 809 – 902
Begins: “The ceiling was breathing. It bulged and receded.”
Week Ten – May 18, 2015
Page 902 – 981 and Conclusions/Book as a whole
Begins: “Gately’s cognomen growing up and moving through public grades had been Bim or Bimmy, or The Bimulator, etc, from the acronymic B.I.M., ‘Big Indestructible Moron.’”
IMPORTANT: These discussion threads will remain open indefinitely. If you find yourself behind in the reading or if you have joined the group after the dates listed above, go ahead and read at your own pace and discuss when you want. The moderator and other members will gladly join in!