Milestone Reached: 516 (52%)
Chapters Read:
Page 442 – YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT: Gately ponders his relationship with a possibly fictitious Higher Power, and remembers his mother’s alcoholism / cirrhosis.
Page 448 – VERY LATE OCTOBER Y.D.A.U: Hal has the “losing your teeth” dream; Mario continues to listen to “Sixty Minutes More or Less”, even without Madame Psychosis.
Page 450 – 9 NOVEMBER / YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT: Early morning drills at E.T.A.; Schtitt delivers the “second world within this world” lecture (i.e., “suck it up, whiners”).
Page 461: Pat Montesian, and Gately reckless driving in her husband’s car.
Page 450 – PRE-DAWN, 1 MAY – Y.D.A.U. / OUTCROPPING NORTHWEST OF TUCSON, AZ U.S.A., STILL: Steeply and Marathe discuss the “pleasure centers of the brain” (p-terminals) experiments.
Page 475: Gately continues cruising in Pat M.’s car; the Wheelchair assassins kill Lucien and Bertraud of Anitoi’s Entertainment.
Page 489 – PRE-DAWN, 1 MAY – Y.D.A.U. / OUTCROPPING NORTHWEST OF TUCSON, AZ U.S.A., STILL: Steeply and Marathe discuss the possibility of an Entertainment “master”; Steeply asks if Marathe has ever been temped to watch it.
Page 491 – WINTER, B.S. 1963, SEPULVEDA CA: James Incandenza helps his father isolate and fix a squeak in a box spring.
Page 503: At a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Ken Erdedy gets hugged by Roy Tony.
Page 507: Marathe admits to Steeply that some interns were “lost” while there were experimenting with the Entertainment.
Page 508 – 10 NOVEMBER / YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT: Hal and others await punishment for the Eschaton disaster; an introduction to “Lateral” Alice Moore’s.
Characters The characters page has been updated.
Sources consulted during the compilation of this summation: JS’s Infinite Jest synopses, Dr. Keith O’Neil’s Infinite Jest Reader’s Guide, and Steve Russillo’s Chapter Thumbnails.
Comments
6 responses to “Infinite Summary – Week 7”
I thought Gately’s mother was at a long-term care facility as a result of her cirrhotic hemorrhage, not dead…?
You are correct; thanks.
also, these summaries must seem so strange to anyone who stumbles across the website but hasn’t read the book. “first JOI helps his pops fix a squeak in the box spring. then ken erdedy gets hugged by roy tony.”
hahaha, yes!
My week 7 post was on brains, rats, happiness, and the problem of atheism. Better than it were the clever and heartfelt comments other Infinite Summerers left on the subject…
“Page 475: Gately continues cruising in Pat M.’s car; the Wheelchair assassins kill Lucien and Bertraud of Anitoi’s Entertainment.”
Understatement of the summer…