Infinite Summer

The M.I.T. Language riots! I find that awesome to a degree that words cannot express.

The MIT language riots is an intertextual reference. Here, DFW is referencing Ratner's Star, a book by DeLillo. D. DeLillo is one of DFW's big influences supposedly.

Also, annular is a significant pick-up. Kudos to the people who noticed it.

I like in the introduction to the filmography: '...certain of his high-conceptual projects' agendas required that they be titled and subjected to critique but never filmed, making their status as film subject to controversy."

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Second-time reader.

What's with all the details on the type of film, and whether it was released, etc? Is that all necessary? To me it seemed like it cluttered the text.

Re-reading this last night (I'm woefully behind - glad for the long weekend), I noticed that the narrator for Annular Fusion Is Our Friend and Annular Amplified Light is "C.N. Reilly."

I take this to mean Charles Nelson Reilly. Love it!

I just finished the section on pgs. 686 – 689 where a “hopeless” Hal is lethargically sitting through a session of watching his Dad’s films. This afforded an opportunity to read in some detail great swaths of Footnote #24 again. One question, however, is a reference to a film entitled Union of Publicly Hidden in Lynn, which I don’t seem to be able to find in the filmography.

Maybe I am just overlooking something?

If not, is there something to the title of this undocumented film we should be paying attention to?