Tim Eastwood

And it breaks her heart to think her love is only Given to a man with hands as cold as ice

@SatireRedacted Eschaton isn't simply a game though, it's the apocalypse; the approach of Christ's reign immediately preceding the end of the world.

Confession time about my Infinite Jest fandom—I don’t really care about the Eschaton sections of the novel. You see, I was never a statistics/maths nerd. It’s an impressive and clever creation and the dueling Pemulis/Hal mean theorem footnote is quite charming, but meh.

@SatireRedacted Wittgenstein.

The Boston street argot sections of Infinite Jest are unfortunately bad and cringe and I wouldn’t miss them in an alternate universe wherein Michael Pietsch got into a knock-out fight with DFW over their inclusion and won handily.

@Alex_Danco "Yushityu nanoprocessors, laser chromotography, Virtual-capable media-cards, fiberoptic pulse, digital encoding, killer apps; carpal neuralgia, phosphenic migraine, gluteal hyperadiposity, lumbar stressae."

Infinite Jest belongs in the techno-optimist canon: a hot take by me, where I argue that its reputation as a dystopian novel falls apart if you actually read it, it is a joyful book open.substack.com/pub/a16z/p/inf…

@loracorkelley @parisreview 💯 (But yes, even the novel's very intentional mischaracterizations of race and gender are deliberate critiques of precisely what's wrong with, in, and about our present-day America, especially its more-or-less blind dependence on stereotypical masculinity.)

I wrote about Infinite Jest for @parisreview! theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02/2…

ICE Out

Arrivederci!

@draxtor Misery loves company.

Oh this works for INFINITE JEST so well - Thomas Bernhard (translation mine): "Often I read entire pages and don't even know what I've read. Then I start again from the beginning and discover that what I've read is beautiful. It's about people who are unhappy."

@NoraKenney_ We're not trapped, though. Wallace represented the way out with AA's 12 Steps because they had been for himself. I do talk with my neighbors in person. Cashiers and others waiting in line too. Already lost, however, some don't even know how to respond. It is entirely up to us.

🎾🛒 Infinite Jest anticipates managerial logic—lives optimized for efficiency, towns flattened into interchangeable landscapes of McDonalds and Walmart—yet defends human dignity, staging moral collisions that force characters to confront the irreducible fact of being a soul.

@sophibalerdi @savannahlouieTV C'mon, it's no contest!

The hate comments that Sav gets are the compliments I love to receive @savannahlouieTV 😝

Mario wasn't lonely though, nor was Barry Loach—"Loneliness is not a function of solitude." Society isn't a halfway house, it's a hospice facility. nothinggold.substack.com/p/a-novel-of-i…

@poorerthandead Calvin Thrust = the thrust of Calvinism. IJ is full of stuff like this.

“Wallace’s work captures something more than your run-of-the-mill existential ennui; he taps into what he calls “emotional poverty,” an impoverishment he experienced when he was addicted to drugs, one he seems to have fought to keep at bay the rest of his life.”

On the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, I’m revisiting an essay I wrote a decade ago, grappling with Wallace’s suicide and his relationship to religious faith. “The Theological Imagination Of David Foster Wallace,” Part One | David Griffith patheos.com/blogs/goodlett…

@sophibalerdi Ooooo, sparkles!

Imagineeeee this being your bestie. WELLLLL thats my life 😛

War, children. It's just a shot away. 🧊

@sherlock_221B_1 Defying social stigma by touching him, just like Jesus cleansing a leper.

Infinite Jest's 30th anniversary soon (and I only read it for the first time last year), that Mario section towards the end is still the most I've probably cried while reading a novel....

@SethAbramson Merely protesting the Schutzstaffel didn't make any difference a hundred years ago, nor will it now.

The number of people I'm seeing online talking about using force to respond to force is larger than I've seen in my lifetime. These are people who have *never* thought that way before. Washington is doing all it can to make Americans feel utterly helpless and up against a wall.

Lol, are you really headed to 31 Riviera Dr in Hattiesburg. WTF, people? Don't do that! 😂

@NYerFiction Selling England by the Pound

Deborah Treisman, Laura Miller, Greg Jackson, and Bennett Sims celebrate the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" at the 92nd Street Y, February 4. 92ny.org/event/infinite…

@BookLuvvr Cooker might be the Entertainment. (Just don't put your head inside.)

Was listening to the latest episode of the Infinite Jest Book Club, and at the exact moment @comes_aTime said '1927' I looked up and saw the digital clock on my cooker read 19:27... Either the DMZ is kicking in, or it is time to start watching The Entertainment!

@EdebiyatHaber theintermediateperiod.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/dav…

David Foster Wallace’ın kült eseri Infinite Jest Türkçeye çevrildi edebiyathaber.net/david-foster-w…