figurant-design
Adjudication
This crux has an adversarial ledger: The Novel's Structure. The per-reading verdicts are below.
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor structure & design cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- Addiction to Itself: Self-Consciousness in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- DFW in conversation with David Kipen — City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco (June 17, 2004)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 05: Stop her! She stole my heart! — Mario and the U.S.S. Millicent Kent through Helen Steeply's Moment article (pp. ~121–144)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 36 (S3 Ep 2): A Garden Variety Wraith — live close-read of the first full wraith scene (pp. ~827–836)
- IJ Lecture IV: The Year of Glad (Hardcore Literature) — the wraith orchestrates, Hal wraith-dosed with DMZ (and maybe shown the film), the too-late head-dig, and the AFR-victory missing year (pp. 795–end)
- Infinite Cast Part 106: Don and the wraith (pp. 827–837) — commentary segment (~18 min): the ghost is JOI and has been haunting the whole book, the coffin-hole lore, the figurant cosmology
- Narrative Modeling and Community Organizing in The Pale King and Infinite Jest
- Review of Karl Plank, The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- Slate Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest — Roiphe, Patterson, and Surowiecki on the mess, the design, and the sadness (recorded ~March 2009)
- The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest