Infinite Length

 

Many have tried to wrestle with David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, Infinite Jest, and many have failed. The book is over 1,000 pages, so one can easily sympathize with those who gave up the struggle. Why suffer a post-post-modern giant when one could read six or seven more manageable, enjoyable and perhaps better works with similar effort? At two hundred pages in, I’m still asking myself that question

So apparently this is a thing…