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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 [...]

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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 and brother [...]

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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 cigars) [...]

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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 [...]

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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) the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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:

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  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 UNDERGARMENT
  87
  Remy Marathe of the Assassins des [...]

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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.

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The Queue

In October we are reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in October. See the announcement.

In January & February of 2010 we are reading 2666, the paperback of which was just released.

At some point in between we are reading a novel TBD.

The Search

The Last 10 Posts

• 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
• I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…

The Last 10 Comments

• 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!!
• Scott on Join the Tunnel Club: If not here, maybe as a group read on the Bolano Googl Group. See the discussion of...
• ariel on Join the Tunnel Club: hi! can we please revisit this? is there going to be a 2666 club in january?
• sarah klise on Maria Bustillos: The Wonder of Wallace-L: Ken- No immediate plans for repub. We shall see what the...
• redsock on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II: Re Avril’s sexual affairs mentioned by Daryl: In the...

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