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Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor structure & design cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- Bookworm: David Foster Wallace on A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again — KCRW (May 15, 1997)
- Community book club 1
- Community book club 4
- IJ Book Club Ep. 02: Are they addicted to the process, the secrecy, or the drug? — early-pages session, Orin's phone call through the pump room
- IJ Book Club Ep. 04: Hatred of the work is just part of the work — Schtitt & Mario, Tiny Ewell, the first Marathe–Steeply desert section, and the ETA locker room (pp. ~79–121)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 16: You can't get drunk and you can't get sober — the White Flag / Boston AA chapter (pp. ~343–379)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 20: Taken Ill Shortly After Coming Home From Work — the Antitoi murders from inside the shop, the 1963 mattress scene, the NA marijuana meeting (pp. ~480–508)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 22 (S2 Ep 2): The Back-Door Slip — the government-side samizdat briefing, the Avril/Wayne tableau, Lenz & Green, the hand-model scene with endnote 234, and Arslanian's fusion lecture (pp. ~548–575)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 24 (S2 Ep 4): Shot in Sobriety — live close-read of the Ennet House shootout and the engineer snatch (pp. ~593–620s)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 34 (feed-titled S2 Ep 4, in practice the season-2 finale): Kevin cries for all of us — Pemulis's dismissal (endnote 332) and Hal's Inner-Infant meeting (pp. ~795–808)
- IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 7: Different Types of Sight — the match from the gallery, Matty Pemulis at the Man o' War, Hal in the viewing room (pp. ~673–~689)
- Infinite Cast Part 31: Joelle has too much fun — commentary segment (~20 min): the overdose read flatly as a suicide attempt, prose that dissociates with her, Infinite Boston, the red-flag-book taxonomy, Hamlet finally noticed
- Michael Pietsch to DFW, December 22, 1994 (second-read letter + cut-suggestion list)
- The Second Time Around (Through page 102)