![]() …and then it turned out that my roommate had just gotten confused and thought Robert Anton Wilson and David Foster Wallace were the same person, because they both had three names. In an instant of sudden clarity I realized he was right, that they were basically the same book – the same fractally complex narrative of broken meandering plots about an endlessly-awaited but never arriving apocalypse the same weird nightmare funhouse mirror held up to the world the same thousand-odd pages followed by hundreds of complicated footnotes the same ambiguously-successful attempt to draw a spark of honest feeling out of the detached amusement that is post-modernism. I was talking to my roommate about Infinite Jest, and he asked me how it compared to Illuminatus. ![]() Warning: Composed entirely of spoilers for Infinite Jest. ![]()
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