the professional-conversationalist scene's reality: straight event vs. Hal's drug-distorted memory while catatonic post-Year-of-Glad
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Remaining Hal positions | open |
Discussed in
- Community book club 1
- Community book club 4
- In the David Foster Wallace Archive: Part 1/3
- Infinite Jest: To Be, or Not to Be (David Foster Wallace Lecture I) — Hardcore Literature lecture series, ep. I of IV, pages 1–233
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 02: Eating Granola With A Large Wooden Spoon (v2.0) — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 1–105 (Year of Glad through the locker room; the filmography tour, Gompert, Schtitt)