Just one week and 131 pages left! (Everyone give yourselves some kind of self-congratulatory gesture)
This week I thought there was a lot of interesting commentary on love, choice and the intersection thereof in the first portion of the reading, and then a lot on Gately, which took up the book's earlier theme of being trapped unable to communicate with anyone.
Focus Passages: 774-782 (Kate and Marathe on love), 829- 855 (loosely, there are a couple small interruptions in the Gately text here, basically I just wanted to touch on the wraith- who he is, what he is doing here, etc.)
Funny: p. 795-808 Hal's "NA" Meeting
*Note another teeth dream on 770
*Also note also that there are two semi-important (for plot) passages in this section that are in the endnotes and 332, on Mike Pemulis.
And also note, 758-759 when Mario and Chu are speaking we see a nod to E Unibus in the way that Mario talks about Chu "acting natural" and the interesting way in which Chu is a subject of the camera, but trying to interface with Mario, who is essentially only focused on Chu as a object, rather than engaging with him.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Also pay attention in the Gately section to the discussion of figurants.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, Infinite Jest is hard to understand when reading it for the first time. Like what Chloe mentioned at the beginning of the quarter. I am too having a hard time digesting all the information DFW throws at us through out the book. But I am trying...
ReplyDeleteOne thing I like about IJ is that DFW likes to use life-like dreams that us readers can relate to. Once again, the dream of having rotten teeth or whatnot appears and its Hal again. What can be said about it? What does it mean? And why does the author use that kind of dream? That's what I am interested in.