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ready to resume being That Guy again (starting election year reread of Infinite Jest)
turns out DFW may have been an unbelievably horribly human being, but he did write a novel in 1996 that came true twenty years later, it& #39;s tough to ignore an accomplishment like that
pp. 144-151 of the first edition is about how bad video Zoom calls are. again, written in 1996, before zoom, or video calls, or us all being in our homes forever.
joelle van dyne reminiscing about how much fun it was going to movie theaters before they all closed and we just all watched stuff alone in our homes forever. I don& #39;t know how many times I can say this: he wrote this 24 years ago
endnote 110 makes reference to "telegrocery" services, which, as described, are clearly just Instacart
Marathe: "Can such a USA hope to survive for a much longer time?...If there are other peoples who still know what it is to choose? Who will die for something larger? Who will sacrifice the warm home, the loved woman...their life even, for something more than their own wishes?"
"Now is what has happened when a people choose nothing over themselves to love, each one."
if you haven& #39;t read the book yet, i recommend it, because you& #39;re living in it
if you haven& #39;t read the book yet, i recommend it, because you& #39;re living in it
working on my notes so i can pick the infinite jest thread up again, i need to alienate at least 18 of you https://twitter.com/imaxafterlife/status/1295056956433072135?s=20">https://twitter.com/imaxafter...
page 620: people are desperate to experience things collectively, show up to outdoor events like draining the duck pond in the Public Garden just to do something that& #39;s not watching tv alone
page 638: Steeply talks about his father becoming obsessed with M*A*S*H* and thinking there are coded messages in it about a coming apocalypse, which hits different in the qanon era
and i blew right past johnny gentle, the germophobic vegas entertainer who becomes president by accident, as the two major political parties lose the election and stare at each other "like doubles partners each thinking the other one& #39;s surely got it"
the supercontinent is called O.N.A.N. which is obviously a dick joke but not enough has been made of james orin incandenza being referred to throughout as J.O.I.
lost at least one follower from this thread yesterday, gonna keep pushing until we get back to that magic 499 number
