![]() ![]() Wallace begins his novel by answering the opening question of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “Who’s there?” This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed again the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. ![]() My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. In a sentence, I’d say it’s about trying to find connection in a world geared toward solitary entertainment, loosely based on Hamlet, using drugs and junior tennis as metaphors with two young men, Hal Incandenza and Don Gately, struggling to make sense of it all. If I made a list, it would include: junior tennis, addiction, recovery, parent/child relationships, Hamlet, math, philosophy, interpersonal relationships, and home entertainment. That hasn’t stopped me and others from trying, though. By the middle of the book, I found the weekly page goals restrictive I couldn’t wait to read on and see what happened.Ī frequent question of readers during Infinite Summer has been, “What’s it about?” I’m not sure it’s possible, or desirable, to capture this complex 981-page book with its 98 pages of endnotes simply. ![]() I used my stacation last month to push on to the end of Infinite Jest. ![]()
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