Things I feel I have better understanding of, having just finished Infinite Jest.

Yes, yes, yes. Also, having just finished The Pale King I’m even more looking forward to reading IJ again.

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Optics, lenses, college acceptance, junior sporting academies, tennis drills, prescription pharmacology, jumping across train tracks, non-prescription pharmacology, Quebec, Quebecois separatism, half-way houses, addiction, AA, NA, CA, taking a mental health history, reasons for and against inflating the ‘lung’, cinema, art cinema, film criticism, football, punting, howling fantods, unarmed combat, armed combat, firearms, robbery, wheelchairs, asphyxiation, microwaves, plagiarism, radio broadcasting, hosting of radio shows, higher powers, Eschaton, the Eschaton incident of Interdependence Day in the Y.D.A.U., waste disposal, radioactivity, cults, urine testing, applications for Visine bottles, telephony, videophony, betting, counter-betting, air displacement generators, basic human decency, begging, adhesive properties of cold glass, veils, terrorism, and of course variations of ‘I’m sorry’ repeated softly into a camera for around thirty minutes.

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   Yes, yes, yes. Also, having just finished The Pale King I’m even more looking forward to reading IJ again. themadeshop:

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    Or, things I hope to have a better understanding of, one day. May have the jumping train tracks bit down already.

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