representative basically forces a thirty-day detox on him, Pemulis, and Trevor Axford. Quotes Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) - Highlight Loc. As a result, any reader in our modern era is likely to find themselves in it. here's my interpretation of hal :) Close. Gleason Jackie Gleason was one of the great comic actors of the 20th century. One of the unifying attributes of the main characters in Infinite Jest is that they're addicted to substances or that their lives have been touched by someone else's addiction. Joelle van Dyne (Madame Psychosis) : Jena Malone She's mostly an actor but she makes the kind of music Madame Psychosis would play on her radio show. A list of characters from David Foster Wallace's novel "Infinite Jest." Set in the Sabon typeface, the same font used in the novel. Where the novel is vague, a map must be specific, even when it is being demapped. Here are some links to explanations about the characters and ending of Infinite Jest. Do you like this video? dictate, years are referred to by. Like so many circumstances that characters face in this book, reading Infinite Jest is a very personal endeavor. Infinite Jest is David Foster Wallace's gargantuan magnum opus. Being plentiful in length, characters and scenes, Infinite Jest is a complex novel. Infinite Jest stands out not only because of its exuberant length and DFW's style of writing, but also because a third of it is in endnotes, and the endnotes have footnotes, and anyone who appreciates non-linear writing will have a /lit/gasm. With the help of a few others, Aaron Swartz thinks he has a compelling answer that can be found here: Infinite Jest ending. Hal realizes that he's addicted to marijuana after an O.N.A.N.T.A. INFINITE JEST CHARACTER DIAGRAM From designer Sam Potts comes another visualization of the relationships between the characters, this time in the form of a diagram. Character Profiles.Thanks to Tim Feeney for this very detailed account of each of the many characters in Infinite Jest. Infinite Jest is wildly funny and, like I mentioned above, almost unexpectedly moving: there is a kind of veneer between the reader and the characters they are guarded and stoic people, for the most part, and "getting to know" them can be as frustrating as trying to "get to know" someone in your own life who is guarded and careful with their. An Infinite Jest View source History Talk (0) watch 01:40. Finding my way around David Foster Wallace's monumental maze of a story has ruined my social life and made my brain hurt - but its. And I wanted it not to have a single main character. Do you like this video? Of the last few decades, it is the one piece of literature regarded as unimpeachably genius, a game changer, a generation-definer, an Urtext of whatever they're calling fiction after post-modernism, an event, a whatever else you can think of. Central families (Beadsmans in Broom Incandenzas in Jest) Estranged parents (Stonecipher III and Patrice J.O.I and Avril) Coincidences Conspiracies, hidden. An interactive data visualization of Infinite Jest 's plot and themes. SK8 the Infinity (SK∞ エスケーエイト, Esukēeito?) The Infinite Atlas Project is an independent research and art project seeking to identify, place and describe every possible location in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. In Infinite Jest, main character Hal Incandenza recalls his own father telling him that: talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation it is there from the start and either. This is the Wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.You can take a look at the cover, read the book description written by Pynchon himself, read the reviews, entertain some theories on the source of the title, or check out the Errata. Infinite Jest has been viewed by champions of its cause as a solution to the defeatist irony of postmodernism and by critics as a postmodern gag in which the reader falls victim to intellectual "jest." Exploring the text's initial affiliations with Hamlet is a fundamental move toward stabilizing Infinite Jest's status as a sincere and authentic representation of American life at the turn of.