General Chit-Chat

[Dustin]

Hi, everyone!

I just joined the group, which looks great, BTW. I'm really looking forward to reading Infinite Jest (some day,) and discussing Wallace's work with like-minded individuals such as yourselves.


Thank you for the invite, Aloha!!!

[Aloha]

Welcome, Dustin! I'm glad to have you with us. I need to start perusing this forum, too. I'm planning to be with the first group, the one that reads it in December. I have to finish the Women and Men review, read the The Quincunx. I'm almost done with the DFW biography.

[Dustin]

Thank you very much, Aloha!!:) I'm happy to be here. I have no idea when I'll get to Infinite Jest, but I surely will read it some time.

[Aloha]

You'll still get a lot following the discussion here, Dustin.

[Jerry]

Terry wrote: "Thanks for the invite. I'm trepidatious about starting this book, but I guess I've got 5 months to pump myself up for it!"

It's getting close..., are you pumped yet?

[Dustin]

Aloha wrote: "You'll still get a lot following the discussion here, Dustin."

Yeah, I'm sure I will. There seems to be a lot of valuable information here. Thank you for the heads-up, Aloha.

[Luke]

Proust. End notes. Wrist workouts. Tumblr boobies. (view spoiler)[Spoilers. (hide spoiler)]
Hmm. Sounds about right.

[Rayroy]

I wish we could all meet in real life and discuss this book once a month.

[Sunny]

Whew! Finally finished reading IJ, so I was comfortable visiting all of those threads with spoilers! I can't wait to read this again!!!

[Jamie]

Hi folks! I've just joined the group because I started reading IJ a little over a week ago and knew I'd need some support to digest it! I won't be following the reading schedule exactly, but look forward to discussing. I'm reading the epub format on my Nook, so the pages don't exactly line up, but I definitely appreciate the ease of skipping between the text and the footnotes.
Aside from the anticipation of where the story is going, I'm also enjoying the fictionalized and real locations around the Boston area. I was doing a lot of theorizing about where Enfield was supposedly located, and just came upon http://infiniteatlas.com . Looks like I used to live smack in the middle of the Empire Waste Displacement compound... wonder what happened to my triple-decker in the IJ universe!

[Shmuli]

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/relea...#

Above is the link to DFW handwritten first page draft of Infinite Jest held in the archives at the University of Texas.

[Shmuli]

http://web.archive.org/web/2005041101...

The above is a link to first draft notes for Infinite Jest. It discusses what was removed, changed, inserted elsewhere, added later etc. it also includes interesting passages which did not make it to final edit.

[Dustin]

Wow, this is amazing, amazing stuff! Thank you very much for sharing, Shmuli!!:)

[Adam]

Hi everyone. My name is Adam and I'm happy to be a part of the group you have here. I haven't read the book yet, but I picked up a copy the other day, and can't wait to dig in.
Thanks for the invite, Dustin!

[Dustin]

You are most welcome, Adam! It's great to see you here!!

[Dustin]

I'd like to welcome IJ's newest member, Cheryl! I look forward to chatting you in the group, and reading the book with you!

[Dustin]

Please give a very warm welcome to our latest member, who happens to share my name.:) Welcome, Dustin!