Topics of discussion:

• Hal's relationship with Himself (Hal being the most similar to J.O.I.); 
• Lenz: strange get-up, racist inner monologue, and the effects of cocaine; 
• AFR in Antitoi Entertainment;
• Ruth chasing Poor Tony; 
• The Swiss hand model IS Luria P.?!

See also:

• Gifford Lectures (Scotland);
• Transition lenses; 
• "performing a Veronica" in bull-fighting;
• Maurice DuPlessis (16th premier of Quebec);
• Pirating records in the 70s;
• American Disabled Movement (ADAPT);
• 1990 - American with Disabilities Act;
• Respect versus solicitude;
• Universal versus adaptive design

We'll read pages 729–747 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

• Ruth Van Cleeve and Kate Gompert encountering Poor Tony; 
• Cocaine Anonymous;
• Meanwhile, at ETA...Pemulis messes in the ceiling panels, Lyle hovers, Schtitt and Mario go for ice cream, Avril chain smokes, and Hal watches Blood Sister;

See also:

• Catachresis, malapropism, spoonerisms;
• quarantine releases;
• shoes and shoelessness (at home);
• Hindu god, Hanuman;
• The Little Hours;
• The King and I, "Getting to Know You;"
• 1980s films set in offices;
• The Atlantic on AA;
• digital editing;
• personality tests
• Rancho Notorious;
• Sister Act

We'll read pages 716–729 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

• Helen Steeply interviews Thierry Poutrincourt while Hal and Ortho play a match; 
• DeLint is both a jerk and maybe not very smart;
• Matty Pemulis and child abuse;
• Hal watching old TPs of James O.'s films

See also:

• the name "Ortho;"
• time ghosts;
• rabbit holes that are short and unrewarding 

We'll read pages 698–716 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

• Marlon Bain ("a very wet boy" and Orin's former doubles partner) corresponds with Helen Steeply; 
• Orin attempting to define himself in opposition to Avril;
• a nightmare review;
• younger students in the tunnels picking up trash and stumbling on TP cartridges?!

See also:

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder;
• Gretel the cross-sectioned dairy cow which isn't a strictly real thing;
• toxic masculinity;
• "the incident in your high school" (Twitter thread);
• tennis ball re-pressurizing;
• utili-doors, skyway, pedway

We'll read pages 673–698 next time.

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This time, we welcome special guest, Jonathan Gingerich, to join us as we talk about...

Topics of discussion:

• what brought us to Infinite Jest in the first place (primarily Jonathan);
• M*A*S*H (TV show)(Robert Altman's movie);
• the purpose of The Entertainment; 
• Geoffrey Day, Erdedy, and Kate Gompert talk depression and floating shapes;
• Helen Steeply talks to DeLint (who's a jerk); 
• ETA montage (ghost's eye view?); 
• is the Swiss hand model Luria P--?;
• carved out of what, though?;
• every time is cookie time, and all cats can see ghosts 

See also:

• Korean War;
• spoilers for the 11-year old show, LOST;
• Fox + broadcast networks;
• stenography shorthand;
• Beauty and the Beast's Cogsworth (Disney movie);
• David Ogden Stiers;
• Jorge Luis Borges "The Zahir" (short story);
• James Poniewozik's NY Times article, "Donald Trump Lost His Battle. The Culture War Goes On";
• Sufjan Stevens "Should Have Known Better"

We'll read pages 663–673 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

• TP specifications/advertisements;
• CHOICE;
• Draining the duck pond;
• Vignette in Rodney Tine's office;
• MIT radio technician is kidnapped by AFR;
• Dinner at ETA;
• And possible ghosts remain!

See also:

• Beet and turnip soup;
• "apps" (killer and otherwise);
• 1996 - Google founded;
• Ubiquity of cameras;
• Bruce Schneier (tech futurist);
• CHOICE;
• Boston Public Gardens;
• Make Way for Ducklings;
• Catcher in the Rye;
• Bread and Circus;
• Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter
• Sappho;
• "supertasters;"
• Polykleitos;
• Hermes;
• Theseus

We'll read pages 638–663 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

• Racoons;
• What do you miss? - Orin takes a "survey" (where did automatic doors go?);
• Moving cars around outside Ennet House and the violence that ensues!

See also:

• Andrew doesn't care whether Orin lives or dies;
• Herding cats;
• Oubliettes

We'll read pages 620–638 next time.

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Our apologies for some less-than-great audio this week. It's still listenable, just a little rougher than usual.

We'll read pages 596–620 next time.

Topics of discussion:

• Lenz + Green + Polynesian music;
• Mario's missing Madame Psychosis;
• Don Gately's administrative duties;
• Basically, Brianna is Don Gately!

See also:

• John is listening and he thinks we're smart!;
• Seahorses, they actually look like horses!;
• Horses have two eyes and horse legs are giant fingers [diagram];
• Mike Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts;
• Sam Houston, governor of Tennessee and Texas;
• Buns of Steel (workout video);
• Sir John Falstaff;
• Madame Defarge, A Tale of Two Cities;
• Don Ho ("Tiny Bubbles");
• M&Ms;
• Peeping Tom (movie);
• Tim is listening and he told us about AOC quoting DFW!;
• Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace (book)

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Next episode we'll be reading pages 575–596.

Topics of discussion:

• Helen Steeply's interview with Orin Incandenza;
• Call-backs to those times when J.O.I. impersonated health care professionals…;
• The nature of mental illness;
• Idris Arslanian (???) wandering around in a blindfold;
• Tree creatures pooping and hawks swooping;
• and HAIR CUTS

See also:

• Terrance Rafferty, NY Times;
• Texas Watson;
• Zaphod Beeblebrox, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy;
• Veil of Maya

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Topics of discussion:

• Rodney Tine + the Office of Unspecified Services;
• The cognitive effects of The Entertainment;
• The Darkness has ghosts;
• Pemulis as a jester;
• Lenz + Green;
• The varying effects of cocaine;
• and Hal is "by far Brianna's favorite person"

See also:

• Monty Python's "The Funniest Joke in the World";
• Clark's wallabees shoes;
• Charles Simic, "Crepuscular";
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner";
• Brooding and Hamlet;
• Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979 film);
• Spicy Burrito Problem (omnipotence problem/paradox; The Paradox of the Stone)

We'll be reading pages 548–565 next time.

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CW: animal cruelty

Topics of discussion:

• Why we skip reading things;
• Marathe and Steeply continue sitting; 
• Joelle/Don Gately - veils, misunderstanding words;
• Randy Lenz - doing a little cocaine;
• Graphic violence and the purpose in the novel

See also:

• The Cryptid Keeper (specifically, the cigar-smoking Kapre);
• TV Tropes - So Beautiful it's a Curse;
• Kejōrō (from Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki);
• Harionago; 
• 90s Ganguro style; 
• Douglas Bader, amputee pilot; 
• Circe (also a novel by Madeline Miller);
• L'Academie Francaise - members are called "immortal"

We'll be reading pages 548–565 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

James O.'s autobiography; Casual sexism + gender roles; Narcotics Anonymous; Hank Hoyne and studying The Entertainment; Lateral Alice Moore; Politeness Roulette; and EPISODE 17

See also:

• Squirrels jumping into leaves
• Cats and olive juice
• The Man from Glad
• Cahiers du Cinéma
• French New Wave
• Powell's Peeping Tom (trailer)
• Magneto
• Ada McMahon
• Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul and Salmon of Doubt
• Brachistochrone curve
• Anechoic chambers
• Constellations: Hercules, Perseus, Castor/Pollux
• James Jason Walsh, "American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest"
• Night Sky application for Mac
• Statler and Waldorf
• The color blue
• Bill Murry went to my high school
• John Newcombe (Tennis Ranch)
• Coatlicue
• Sound memories
• Toronto Bluejays' Skydome (The Rogers Centre)

We’ll be reading pages 528–548 next week.

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Topics of discussion:

Marathe and Steeply's conversation about neurology and p-terminals; "Has anyone told you Don Gately has a square head?"; the Antitoi Brothers' shenanigans; stereotyping of folks in wheelchairs; Infinite Jest: apparently unfilmable, but IS IT?

See also:

• Briggs electrodes
• James Olds' study about "reward centers"
• MKUltra
• Tuskegee Project
• Emmett Leith and holography
• The May Day Mystery

We’ll be reading pages 491–528 next time.

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Topics of discussion:

New bikes; trite cliches that actually work; teeth dreams; the whereabouts of Madame Psychosis; A.M. drills; C.T. and Total Worry; living within the tennis court; and CAKE

See also:

• Polonius from Hamlet (paper bag Hamlet; Ian Holm; Bill Murray)
• David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" Kenyon Commencement address
• The Neverending Story (movie)
• Inside Out (movie)
• Mimetic architecture
• Title IX
• P-Zombie
• Betty Crocker's yellow cake mix

We’ll be reading pages 470–491 next week.

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Topics of discussion:

Marathe and Steeply talk the Office of Unspecified Services, their political philosophies, and SOUP; The American Dream; Eric Clipperton (finally some closure); Gately and cleaning; Dr. Dolores Rusk, ETA counselor

See also:

• Shining Path + Maxwell House
• Radiohead's "Fitter Happier"
• Utilitarianism + Jeremy Bentham, mummy
• David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster"
• Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff (movie)
• Cities + cars + horse poop
• Why Andrew didn't have an Instagram until now

We’ll be reading pages 442–470 next week.

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Topics of discussion:Eschaton, film, leitmotif, critics and consumerism, President Gentle, Eric Clipperton, advertising, computer storage, Schtitt's politics, and BANANAS!

See also:

• Corrie Baldauf's Infinite Jest Project - Instagram
• Carole Maso's Ava (book)
• Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (book)
• Carl Elsaesser (filmmaker)
• Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis (film)
• critics in fiction: Louise Penny's Three Pines mysteries, Ratatouille, and Chef
• 1972 Democratic Primary
• Sherman Antitrust Act of 1980
• Well, there's your problem (YouTube series)

We’ll be reading pages 418–442 next week.

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Topics of discussion: Marathe and Steeply on the ledge, still; anti-confluentialism; Interdependence Day celebrations at Enfield Tennis Academy; the politics of O.N.A.N.; the politics of A.A.; how to do A.A. "right;" also HATS 

See also: 

• filmmakers: Fritz Lang, Robert Bresson, Maya Deren, Hollis Frampton 
• Jacques Godbout's Kid Sentiment & The Black Sheep 
• Roger Ebert's review of Pink Flamingos 
• Andrew's non-fiction poetics essay, "Self-Consciousness, Performance, and the Technical Monster" 
• William Blake "The Tyger" & "The Lamb" 
• Allen Ginsberg reading William Blake 
• Tod Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (movie) 
• Denise Duhamel's Barbie poems, Kinky 
• Cloud Atlas (movie) 
• Network (movie) 
• Avatar: The Last Air Bender 
• Inygo Montoya in The Princess Bride 
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974 movie) 
• Peter Greenaway's The Falls (movie) 

We’ll be reading pages 395–418 next week. 

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Please excuse this late installment—it's because I'm lazy! In this episode, we talk about AA and dive into David Foster Wallace's sometimes-unsavory biography.

See also

• The Atlantic: The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous | NPR: Critic Faults Alcoholics Anonymous For Lack Of Evidence
• David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram
• The Awl: Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
• New York Magazine: Just Kids
• The Atlantic: David Foster Wallace and the Dangerous Romance of Male Genius
• WBUR: Memoirist Mary Karr On God, #MeToo And Speaking Up About David Foster Wallace
• The Dollop: The Coors Family

We'll be reading pages 375–395 next week.

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After a one-week hiccup in our schedule, we're back and reading about an unmitigated fiasco. That's right—it's Eschaton!

Topics of discussion

Cameras (again); Mario Incandenza continues to be one of the few characters with any redeeming qualities; Emil Minty is a real person!?; beasts; computers; apocalypses; unidentified Ford-sitters.

See also

• Bolex H16 REX-5 | Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini
• Wikipedia: Emil Minty
• Wikipedia: Gaudeamus igitur | Library of Congress: Gaudeamus igitur
• The Verge: Eschaton is a surreal Zoom nightclub — and a theater for the age of social distancing
• Official trailer: The Pilgrim's Progress
• Wikimedia Commons: Albrecht Dürer's *The best with the lamb's horns and the beast with seven heads
• VT100.net: DIGITAL Computing Timeline – 1994
• Wikipedia: Commentary (magazine) | Google Books: Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right
• The Decemberists' Calamity Song music video | All Songs Considered first watch: The Decemberists, Calamity Song

We'll be reading pages 343–375 next week.

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Welcome to our belated fourteenth episode—sorry, it couldn't be helped! This week, we learn more about Quebecois separatists and discuss our own, largely-inadequate history educations.

Topics of discussion:

• Answering the double-bind essay question
• Inadequate curricula, both real and fictional
• Quebec History in Infinite Jest: Disentangling Fact from Fiction: A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical References in the Writings of David Foster Wallace
• Wile E. Coyote as a model for direct action in the Quebec freedom struggle

See also:

• Wikipedia: Felo de se
• Wikipedia: Cap-Rouge, Quebec City
• Wikipedia: Louis de Buade de Frontenac
• Wikipedia: Château Frontenac
• Wikipedia: Jacques Cartier
• Wikipedia: Jean-François Roberval
• Wikipedia: Samuel de Champlain
• Wikipedia: Ursulines
• Wikipedia: Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
• Wikipedia: Meech Lake Accord
• Wikipedia: Jacques Parizeau
• Wikipedia: 1995 Quebec referendum
• Wikipedia: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
• Infinite Jest Wiki – Notes and Errata (page 1016 notes on Brazilian Nuevo Contras/Noie Störkraft/The Shining Path/Belgian CCC's)

We'll be reading pages 312–343 next week.

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