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| Author: | Sorlo09 [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | the 'entertainment' cartridge |
thought it might be infinite jest v from the start, now pretty positive after what the agents said. Any other ideas? |
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| Author: | monsterbeard [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: the 'entertainment' cartridge |
I agree with you on that. Particularly given the title. But then I'm wondering... how would anyone ever create a work that left one in such a state without being left in said state themselves? But I couldn't help reading about the Medical Attache with rapt fascination. |
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| Author: | Hugh G. Rection [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: the 'entertainment' cartridge |
And critics, according to the footnote, have reviewed it as "extraordinary", etc. How could have the critics gotten away scot-free? |
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| Author: | ontoursecretly [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: the 'entertainment' cartridge |
Maybe it had super-optic hypnotic qualities? (half kidding) |
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| Author: | wheat [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:15 am ] |
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| Author: | troybob [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:51 am ] |
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| Author: | wheat [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:24 am ] |
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| Author: | Webslog [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: the 'entertainment' cartridge |
And to wheat's point, the Entertainment works when it's watched by people who are ready to unhook/become uninvilved in their own internal life ... a willing audience is maybe the key to why it works. This wouldn't be inconsistent with the overall message of "Pay attention to what you pay attention to," In fact the Entertainment isn't too far away in its essence from mindlessly flipping through channels even when you know that you'd be happier doing whatever. As to the critics' commentary on the film IJ V, if I had to guess, that could be a jab at critics in general who often review books (music, architecture, restaurants, et al) with little more than a passing glance. DFW would have had no little experience in having his work (mis/under)analyzed by a critical community that focused solely on his word choice, his age and all the other factors that seem to form the corpus of the early lit crit we see on him. As Himself had become an established - albeit nearly incomprehensible - filmmaker, it would be easy as a critic to go into Infinite Jest V with all of the previous versions working as a filter ... how possibly could a work stand on its own when examined in an intellectually unvigorous way as we might see from a critic who's covering "4 Boffo Beach Books!" in Entertainment Weekly. |
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| Author: | donkey rhubarb [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:34 pm ] |
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| Author: | Sorlo09 [ Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: the 'entertainment' cartridge |
pg. 91 "...victim's prior possible involvement with the widow of the auteur we both know was responsible for the Entertainment in the first place." |
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