Comments on: Infinite Summery – Week 2

By: Infinite Summer, Checkpoint at Wood-Tang.com

Infinite Summer, Checkpoint at Wood-Tang.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:08:40 +0000

[...] still hanging in there reading Infinite Jest. I’m nearly to page 300, although by the schedule I’m only supposed to be at 147. To be fair, I started a week early, but I figure I need to [...]

By: punditius

punditius — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:19:44 +0000

The bricklaying story is an English comedy routine. I’ve heard an audio of it on WFMT (Chicago) a couple of times & my sense of it is that it predates WWII.

By: Ames

Ames — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:35:37 +0000

Agreed – but I recommend reading it, at least just for the gist of why the AFR are in wheelchairs. I didn’t catch on to what those “Note 304 sub” (the “sub” part threw me for a loop – any idea what that means?) footnotes meant until I’d passed a couple, but now I wish I’d read it earlier.

By: Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:11:58 +0000

What are you talking about? The yrstruly and Wardine sections have been among the very best so far (along with the Hal’s-Something-I-Ate opening and Erdedy’s Unpatient Waiting). Wish there was more of this and less Steeply and Marathe.

By: losergeek

losergeek — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:20:14 +0000

I’ve spent the last 15 years trying to get through Gravity’s Rainbow and keep giving up (and usually not getting very far), that was one of the reasons for taking on IJ – I was hoping it would give me the endurance to go back to GR.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:29:02 +0000

It’s fair game. It’s a true footnote–it won’t spoil anything in the main text, only give more depth to some of what you might hear later about the Les Enfants Rolleuts (or however that’s spelled).

By: drew

drew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:52:02 +0000

Question…

endnote 45 says “see note 304 sub.”

are we supposed to read note 304? I just wanted to double check to make sure I don’t get ahead of myself.

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:07:49 +0000

I loved the yrstruly section. Reminded me of Ulysses.

By: josh

josh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:50:33 +0000

Any thoughts about who’s narrating? The two page section about Lyle, in particular, is throwing me for a loop.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:10:17 +0000

I caught that too late; for some reason I always really want to add an ‘e’ to his name. Anyway my primary reason in posting that was looking for further Barth references. There’s gotta be something else: when you write an entire short story as a response to an author’s novel and then create a create a character as similar in general situation as Madame Psychosis is, there just *have* to be further references.