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                "title": "Reviews of Infinite Jest",
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                        "*": "September 21, 2008 - '''[http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html ''The New Canon'']''' - Ted Gioia: \"Yet this flamboyant novel is also one of the most down-to-earth books you will ever read.  At its very core, this book is a critique of flashiness and attitude, and argues for a healthy distrust of irony and intellectualizing.  Here is my verdict:  Infinite Jest has a heart of gold.   The viewpoints it presents with the greatest vividness are so simple that, at times, they come across as truisms and clich\u00e9s. But, again and again, our author forces the dead clich\u00e9 back to life\u2014 which may be one of the most difficult tasks any author can face. Wallace\u2019s ability to marry this austere and unadorned core of his vision to the grand superstructures of his interlinking tales is one of the most compelling aspects to a novel that is rich in things to admire. [http://www.thenewcanon.com/infinte_jest.html ''Read the review »'']\n\nFebruary 2, 2007 - '''[[Infinite Jest - The Times Literary Supplement|''The Times Literary Supplement'']]''' - Stephen Burn: \"''Infinite Jest'' is a sprawling tour de force, which is often melancholy, funny and essayistic within the space of a few pages, and almost every page is rich with the local pleasures of Wallace's ability to render the ordinary in un usual and imaginative ways. His prose runs from the basically imitative mimicking the sound of a can of Seven-Up being opened (\"SPFFFT\") and then being gulped down by a greedy eleven-year-old (\"SHULGSPAHH\") — to the literary — the claustrophobic description of eyes closing in the face of Arizona sunlight to encounter \"the darkness of the red cave that opens out before closed eyes.\" [[Infinite Jest - The Times Literary Supplement|''Read the review »'']]\n\nFebruary 1996 - '''[[Infinite Jest - Atlantic Monthly Review, February 1996|''Atlantic Monthly'']]''' - Sven Birkerts: \"''Infinite Jest'' comes, in time, to seem like some great clattering vehicle that is powered by a rudimentary three-stroke engine, the narrative passing in steady sequence from Enfield to Ennet to a plateau lookout in the Southwest where two Québecois-separatist agents are having a secret rendezvous, trying to determine how their people might get hold of a particular \"cartridge,\" or film cassette. The film, the eponymous \"Infinite Jest,\" was made by James Incandenza and has the terrifying capacity to send anyone who views it into a crazed state of fixation that quickly leads to death. Why or how this should be is never made clear, nor do we expect it to be.\" [[Infinite Jest - Atlantic Monthly Review, February 1996|''Read the review »'']]\n\nFebruary 19, 1996 - '''[[Infinite Jest - TIME Magazine|''TIME Magazine'']]''' - R. Z. Sheppard: \"Wallace juggles all this and more with dizzying complexity. You can sign on for the long haul or wait for some post-Pynchon academic to parse it out. Or you can just wade in, enjoy Wallace's maximalist style and hope that unlike the fatal film, ''Infinite Jest'', the novel won't ... ARRRRRRGH!\" [[Infinite Jest - TIME Magazine|''Read the review »'']]\n\nFebruary 13, 1996 - '''[[Infinite Jest - The New York Times, February 13, 1996|''New York Times'']]''' - Michiko Kakutani: \"Somewhere in the mess, the reader suspects, are the outlines of a splendid novel, but as it stands the book feels like one of those unfinished Michelangelo sculptures: you can see a godly creature trying to fight its way out of the marble, but it's stuck there, half excavated, unable to break completely free.\" [[Infinite Jest - The New York Times, February 13, 1996|''Read the review »'']]\n\nFebruary 12, 1996 - '''[[Infinite Jest - Newsweek Review, February 12, 1996|''Newsweek'']]''' - David Gates: \"So what is this creepily entrancing novel actually about? You asked for it. O.N.A.N. (the Organization of North American Nations) has made northern New England into a Lucite-walled dump, where toxic waste fuels mutagenic fusion reactions. This worthless, hazardous territory has been given to Canada, and wheelchair-bound Quebecois terrorists plan to retaliate with widespread dissemination of the lethal amusement \"Infinite Jest.\" Seeking the master copy, the Wheelchair Assassins close in on the film's veiled, disfigured star and on the filmmaker's son -- none other than the teen tennis whiz Hal Incandenza.\"  [[Infinite Jest - Newsweek Review, February 12, 1996|''Read the review »'']]\n\nFebruary 12, 1996 - '''[[Infinite Jest - Newsday Review, February 12, 1996|''Newsday'']]''' - Dan Cryer: \"If you believe the hype, David Foster Wallace is about to be crowned the next heavyweight of American fiction. And the accolade is probably deserved. At the very least, ''Infinite Jest'', his new, 1,079-page novel (including 90 pages devoted to esoteric endnotes), gives a whole new twist to the word \"infinite.\" This huge volume will prop open even a castle's gates. Of course, it's exhausting to read such a mega-book. This is the age of the sound bite. But diving into the riches of ''Infinite Jest'' is also an exhilarating, breathtaking experience. This book teems with so much life and death, so much hilarity and pain, so much gusto in the face of despair that one cheers for the future of our literature.\"  [[Infinite Jest - Newsday Review, February 12, 1996|''Read the review »'']]\n\n{{Top}}"
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                        "*": "'''SAC'''<br />\n63; Strategic Air Command\n\n'''SACPOP'''<br />\n324; Eschaton term. Literally: Strikes Against Civilian Populations. Figuratively: to go \"postal.\"\n\n'''Sagan, Carl'''<br />\n745; (1934-1996) pop-astronomer of whom Orin does an impression\n\n'''St. Columbkill Sunday Night Group'''<br />\n209; 12-Step group; 856;\n\n'''St. Elizabeth's Hospital'''<br />\n209; in Boston, MA\n\n'''St. Mel's Hospital'''<br />\n86; where Ewell detoxed\n\n'''St.-Simone, Kimberly'''<br />\n38\n\n'''samizdat'''<br />\n91; Russian: \"any sort of politically underground or beyond-the-pale press or the stuff published thereby\" 1011; \"the Entertainment\" as, 490, 549; 658;\n\n'''Sandoz Pharmaceuticals'''<br />\n170; where LSD was first created; 927; where Dr. Robert Monroe interned\n\n'''San Simeon'''<br />\n952; floor plans for, at Qal'at Si'man\n\n'''Sarge'''<br />\n860; \"Ferocious Francis's own sponsor, the nearly dead guy they wheel to White Flag\"\n\n'''Saturday Night Lively'''<br />\n555;\n\n'''S.A.S.'''<br />\n138; Substance Abuse Services\n\n'''Saudi Minister of Home Entertainment'''<br />\n33\n\n'''Sawyer, Dean'''<br />\n7; Dean of Admissions at Univ. of AZ, interviewing Hal\n\n'''Schacht, Ted'''<br />\n31; 50; ETA senior; rooms w/Pemulis &amp; Troeltsch; Crohn's Disease, 103, 266, 633; tight with Mario and with Lyle, 263; \"doesn't care all that much whether he wins anymore\" 306; \"thick and solid\" 457;\n\n'''Schtitt, Gerhardt'''<br />\n52; 70-year-old Head Coach and Athletic Director at ETA; about, 79; \"We Are What We Walk Between\" 81; in love with a tree, 83; smokes pipe, 391; early supporter of J. Gentle, fn.169/1031; \"Traversion is character\" fn.234/1039; \"self-transcendence through pain\" 660; with Mario heading for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections, 701; listening to Wagner, 755; \nIt seems that his name should look German, but it is not, since if a \"t\"  follows a \"Sch\", the \"ch\" is left out. So the correct way of spelling would be just \"Stitt\". \n\n'''Schwulst'''<br />\n835; \"a poseur like\"\n\n'''Scooter-Puppies'''<br />\n207; what Boston Bikers refer to themselves as\n\n'''Scorsese, Martin'''<br />\n944; American film director (''Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Casino, Kundun,'' etc.)\n\n'''Seinfeld, Jerry'''<br />\n834; American comedian and TV actor\n\n'''Selwyn'''<br />\n735; paranoid addict who raves about the \"metal\" people to Maranthe; 748 \n\n'''''senza errori'''''<br />\n165; never-miss consistency; 675; (italian: \"without errors\")\n\n'''Sergeant at Arms'''<br />\n359; the well-dressed man outside the Boston AA meetings, in Gately's dream, yanked people out with a shepherd's staff; 463; 468;\n\n'''sexism'''<br />\n\"high-pitched grunts that if girls could only hear what their own grunts sounded like they'd cut it out\" [He''really'' writes that!]\n\n'''Shantell'''<br />\n37; lives with Wardine (sister?); daughter of black addict\n\n'''Sharing and Caring'''<br />\n546; NA group, St. E's\n\n'''Shattuck Shelter for Homeless Males'''<br />\n272; where Gately works as a janitor; 434; 709;\n\n'''Shaw, Colonel'''<br />\n223; \"equestrian statue of\" in Boston, draped in Qu&eacute;becois flag\n\n'''Shaw, Tall Paul'''<br />\n50; ETA student; sponsorship, 266;\n\n'''Shed, The'''<br />\n196; Unit #5 at Ennet House, where catatonics are \"stored\"\n\n'''Sherman statutes'''<br />\n411;\n\n'''Sherman, W.T. (William Tecumseh)'''<br />\n925; \"with the ladies\"  (1820-1891) \"American Union general. Appointed commander of all Union troops in the West (1864), he captured Atlanta (1864) and led a destructive March to the Sea, which effectively cut the Confederacy in two.\" (American Heritage Dictionary)\n\n'''Shiny Prize Biting Shoats'''<br />\n741; KY football team on which the first boy ever to approach Joelle in a male-female way played as a lineman (\"half blind on Everclear punch\"), 741;\n\n'''Show, the'''<br />\n53; pro-level sports, specif. the A.T.P. tour (111); 109; 111; \"When you hit the Show is when you'll understand''primitive''\" 243; 259; 263; 269;\n\n'''Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems'''<br />\n198; near Boston, MA\n\n'''Sidney or Stanley'''<br />\n619; \"hammered\" security guy at Gately/Nuck altercation\n\n'''Sierpinski gasket'''<br />\n213; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle Sierpinski gasket] (aka Sierpinski triangle) is a type of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractals fractal] using equilateral triangles; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski Waclaw Sierpinski] (1882-1969), Polish mathmetician\n\n'''Silvie'''<br />\n51\n\n'''Sir Osis of Thuliver'''<br />\n834; play on words: cirrhosis of the liver.\n\n'''Siress, Erica'''<br />\n514; young ETA student\n\n'''Sixties Bob'''<br />\n''See'' [[M#Monroe|Monroe, Bob]]\n\n'''Skull'''<br />\n208; Ennet House resident\n\n'''Slobodan'''<br />\n525; \"barrel-chested Latvian\" satellite pro (fn.221)\n\n'''slope'''<br />\n131; ethnic slur for an Asian person\n\n'''Smith, Burt F.'''<br />\n130; (not named) mugged by Poor Tony and left to die; Ennet House resident with no hands or feet, 274;\n\n'''Smith, Stan'''<br />\n110; Tennis pro whose cartridge Hal and his Buddies are viewing\n\n'''Smothergill, Phillip T.'''<br />\n229; \"insufferable child actor\"; 714; in Himself's''Low-Temperature Physics'', fn.24/991;\n\n'''Snout'''<br />\n582; rock band\n\n'''Sol Hoopi Players'''<br />\n583; Don Ho's back-up band\n\n'''Sorkin, Whity'''<br />\n131; addict buddy of C's in the days of his youth; scammed by Fackelmann, 886; \"the migrainous bookie\" 892; \"terrible cranio-facial neuralgia\" 913; arrives for Fackelmann's demise \n\n'''''Sorrow and the Pity, The'''''<br />\n835; Gately \"wiggling his pinkie to indicate the world's smallest viola playing the theme from\" (1971 documentary. 4+ hour long French film documenting French attitudes toward the German occupation in WWII and in particular their (the French's) complicity therewith.)\n\n'''special attach&eacute; to the Saudi Minister'''<br />\n33\n\n'''Spider, The'''<br />\n274; aka the Disease aka addiction/dependence\n\n'''Spodek, Carol'''<br />\n102; ETA student; 198; 636; Big Buddy to Kittenplan, 758;\n\n'''sporting lint'''<br />\n202; Boston street term for having no money\n\n'''Spur, The'''<br />\n154; \"outlying district zoned for sprawl\" where Pemulis is from (in Allston, MA); 180\n\n'''Star'''<br />\n896; aka MDMA, Ecstacy\n\n'''Statue of Liberty'''<br />\n\"Libertine Statute, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper\" 33; \"other arm holds aloft a product [...] changed each 1 Jan.\" 367\n\n'''Steenbok, Danielle'''<br />\n208; Ennet House alumna &amp; volunteer counselor; Gompert's counselor, 361; rumored to attend Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, 462;\n\n'''Steeply, M. Hugh (aka Helen)'''<br />\n88; Unspecified Services field operative; described, 93; his \"green sedan subsidized by a painful ad\" 107 (see also p.327); \"made his early career [...] conducting technical interviews\" 108; aka \"Helen\" the journalist--story about heart-in-a-purse lady, 142; \"Putative Curriculum Vitae\" of Helen, 227; 317; \"assigned to cultivate some of the Entertainment's alleged filmmaker's relatives and inner circles\" 375; 1012; going to ETA as \"Helen\" fn.147/1028; \"the ugliest supposedly female feet\" 419; what America really wants, 423; 565; 622; at ETA, 627; his father, 638; H.H., 639; kid sister, 643; at Stice/Hal match, 652;\n\n'''stelliform'''<br />\n\"sharp star of frond-shade\" 165; \"star's points\" 187; Stelliform Cultism, 560; \"perfectly round [...] radiating knives of light\" 88; \"gigantic asterisk shadows\" 88; something Lenz talks about; \"antihistorical American stelliformism\" fn.304/1058; \"stelliform offshoots\" of''Le Assassins'' \" fn.304/1060;\n\n'''stemming'''<br />\n203; metro Boston for panhandling\n\n'''Steve's donuts'''<br />\n129; junkie hangout in Enfield Squar[e], Boston\n\n'''Stewart, Rod'''<br />\n44; British rock singer (\"Rod the Mod\")\n\n'''Stice, Ortho (\"the Darkness\")'''<br />\n17; patriotic ETA student; big fan of Schtitt, 105; Big Buddy to Wagenknecht; 264; rooms w/Coyle, 394; conferring w/Lyle, 394; fn.185; crewcutted, 520; counterphobia, 550; parents (Mr. Stice and The Bride), 628;11/11/YDAU match w/Hal described, 652; forehead stuck to window, 865; 3 statisticians joke, 867; bed is on the ceiling, 942; bet Coyle \"he could stand on his desk chair and lift it up at the same time\" 943;\n\n'''Stockhausen'''<br />\n281; ETA student on \"C\" team, singing opera on the bus\n\n'''Stokely-van Camp Corp.'''<br />\n329; candded- and frozen vegetable conglomerate (?)\n\n'''Store 24'''<br />\n206; where McDade works\n\n'''Stott, Donnie'''<br />\n121; ETA student; Donni, 523, 965; \"Valley-Map laugher\" fn.324/1067;\n\n'''Stove, Betty'''<br />\n123; \"Power-game tradition\"; Dutch tennis player of the mid-70s, winner of numerous Grand Slam doubles titles playing with Wendy Turnbull.\n\n'''Struck, James Albrecht Lockley, Jr.'''<br />\n49; of Orinda, CA; ETA student and Big Buddy to Tallat-Kelpsa, Traub &amp; Whale; Gopnik); pet tarantula, 519; wears braces, 638; studying Qu&eacute;bec-separatist history, fn.304/1055; about his dissipated dad, fn.304/1058;\n\n'''student engineer at WYYY'''<br />\n82; 239; kidnapped, 622-26; 726-27;\n\n'''Subject, The'''<br />\n43; Orin's affectionate moniker for his partners in one-night stands; 566;\n\n'''Subsidized Era'''<br />\n151; when corporations sponsor a year, which year the sponsor may name, at the end of which year they sell the sponsorship to the highest bidder; chronology, 223 (first was B.S.2002 ['''note''': I left this 2002 thing in because I couldn't disprove it, but nor can I recall in the text where one can fix subsidized time to \"regular\" time. In fact when I did it I came up with a different year. I can't recall how I came up with my answer either. -SMR-]; \"Subsidized Time,\" 234; 260; \"a revenue-response to the heady costs of the U.S.'s Reconfigurative giveaway\" 438; 439-42; fn.304/1057;\n\n'''Sudbury Half-Measures Avail Us Nothing Group'''<br />\n563; AA group whose Chair used to be a nuclear auditor for the Defense industry (\"used tod wear a four-piece suit and the fourth piece was him\")\n\n'''Sunstrand Power &amp; Light'''<br />\n342; Himself's ad for, fn.24/986; \"like being down at Sunstrand Plaza when they fired the transformers\" fn.234/1042; \"O.N.A.N.-Sunstrand waste-intensive fusion facility up in what used to be Montpelier\"\n\n'''Sutherland, Joan'''<br />\nfn.324/1069; theme; (b. 1926, Australian operatic soprano)\n\n'''Svelte Nail Co.'''<br />\n540; \"just east of Watertown on No. Harvard St.\" in Boston\n\n'''Sweeny, Chip'''<br />\n552; younger ETA student\n\n'''Swinburne''', Algernon Charles. (1837-1909)<br />\nfn.269/1047;  British poet and critic who wrote musical, often erotic verse in which he attacked the conventions of Victorian morality. (American Heritage Dictionary)\n\n'''Syrian Satellite Pro'''<br />\n216; at ETA for \"two paid weeks of corrective instruction\" \n\n{{Top}}\n{{IJ Alpha Nav}}"
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