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  Infinite Summary – Week 11

  09.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Milestone Reached: 812 (82%) Sections Read: Page 736: Joelle cleans her room, ponders her relationship with Himself and the movies she starred in, and recollects the Thanksgiving she shared with the Incandenzas. Page 747: Marathe speaks to Pat. M. regarding admittance to Ennet House. A discussion about discovered cartridges piques his interest. Marathe ponders his [...]

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  Infinite Summary – Week 10

  08.29.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  And welcome to week 10. Milestone Reached: 738 (75%) Sections Read: Page 666 The Tunnel Club searches the catacombs under E.T.A. for rats. Page 673: Thierry Poutrincourt joins Steeply and deLint in watching the Hal Incandenza v. Ortho Stice match. Page 682 – 14 NOVEMBER / YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT: Matty Pemulis, prostitute [...]

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  Infinite Summary – Week 9

  08.22.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Milestone Reached: 664 (67%) Sections Read: Page 575:: Randy Lenz and Bruce Green continue strolling around Boston. We learn that Green’s mother died of fright after opening a novelty snake-in-a-fake-can-of-nuts gift that young Bruce had given her at his father’s urging, and that Green’s father went insane (and was executed for sending out deadly exploding [...]

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  Infinite Summary – Week 8

  08.15.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Milestone Reached: 590 (60%) Chapters Read: Page 528 – PRE-DAWN AND DAWN, 1 MAY Y.D.A.U. / OUTCROPPING NORTHWEST OF TUCSON AZ U.S.A., STILL: The Marathe and Steeply show continues. Steeply argues that America is not the only culture in which people are drawn to things that could “entertain them to death”. Page 531 – 0450H., [...]

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  Infinite Summary – Week 7

  08.08.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  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 [...]

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  Infinite Summary – Week 6

  08.01.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Milestone Reached: 443 (45%) Chapters Read: Page 343 – 8 NOVEMBER / YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT INTERDEPENDENCE DAY / GAUDEAMUS IGTUR: Mario’s semi-fictional film “The ONANTiad”, which documents (a) the rise of Johnny Gentle from Famous Crooner to head of the Clean U.S. Party and then President of the (then) United States; (b) [...]

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  Infinite Summery – Week 5

  07.25.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Milestone Reached: 369 (37%) Chapters Read: Page 306: An overview of the prorectors’ weekend courses (including “The Toothless Predator: Breast-Feeding as Sexual Assault”!), plus a description of some anti-O.N.A.N. activity by the separatists (mirrors across the road). This section includes the 14 112 17-page “endnote 110″, a conversation between Hal and Orin regarding the true [...]

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  Infinite Summery – Week 4

  07.18.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Milestone Reached: Page 295 (30%). A third of the way there, people. Chapters Read: Page 219: Joelle Van Dyne (a.k.a, Madam Psychosis, who dated Orin and starred in many of James Incandenza’s films (in addition to whatever other relationship they may have had), attends a party and attempts suicide by overdose in the bathroom. Page [...]

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  Infinite Summery – Week 3

  07.11.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  Milestone Reached: Page 221 (22%) Chapters Read: Page 151: Drug tests at E.T.A; Mike Pemulis sells sterile urine. Page 157 – WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ: Himself’s father (Hal’s grandfather) prepares to teach Himself how to play tennis, tells of the incident that ended his own tennis career, and drinks heavily. Page 169 – [...]

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  Infinite Summery – Week 2

  07.04.09 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Milestone Reached: Page 147 (14%) Chapters Read: Chapter Beginning Page Synopsis YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT 85 Tiny Ewell travels to the Enfield Marine VA Hospital Complex via cab. A list of people gathered in the living room of the medical attaché house watching the Entertainment. 30 APRIL — YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT [...]

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The Book

the challenge

Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages¹ ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.

1. Plus endnotes^a.
a. A lot of them.

The Search

The Last 10 Posts

• Infinite Index
• Acknowledgements
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
• The End
• Roundup
• Greg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change Yours)
• Mission Improbable

The Last 10 Comments

• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Mission Improbable: Ooh, I’m thinking maybe Gately’s ginormous head has to do...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…: Nucks...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III: I just realized that Mario reminds me a bit of Owen...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III: I’m finished! I’d started last summer...
• Peer on Acknowledgements: Thanks for the link. I will check it out. I was just hoping for some announcements here...
• Prolixian on Acknowledgements: Peer – if you are interested in 2666, check out bolanobolano.com. A group read...
• Peer on Acknowledgements: When will we start the new book?
• Todeswalzer on Acknowledgements: RIP Infinite Summer. It was great while it lasted.
• Medusa4303 on Join the Tunnel Club: Thanks. Scott! I have just joined the Bolano group, and I am looking forward to...
• ariel on Join the Tunnel Club: thank you scott!!

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