prose-tempo-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
- Bookworm: David Foster Wallace on A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again — KCRW (May 15, 1997)
- DFW in conversation with David Kipen — City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco (June 17, 2004)
- Five Dials No. 10: Celebrating the Life and Work of David Foster Wallace 1962–2008
- Francis Kerline : « Cette traduction de David Foster Wallace m’a presque rendu fou »
- IJ Book Club Ep. 06: Potential May Be Worse Than None, Jim — anti-ONAN list, videophony worked at length, Pemulis's urine economy, the 1960 garage monologue (pp. ~144–172)
- Infinite Cast Part 23: DMZ and the Feral Prodigy — commentary segment (~22 min): the be-no-one doctrine through a Drumline foil, an early mold hunch, run-on prose as brain-mimicry
- Infinite Cast Part 39: Poor Tony's withdrawal — commentary segment (~21 min): dysphoria written from inside, the seizure as birth scene, tedium as instrument, the punt-broadcast catch
- Infinite Cast Part 46: the end of Eschaton (pp. 336–342) — commentary segment (~22 min): bullet-time prose, the Simone Biles / Hal connection, endnote 123 recovered
- Infinite Cast Part 83: Marlon Bain dishes on Orin's past — commentary segment (~18 min): the virtue-philanthropy passage as proto-virtue-posting, cartoonish violence as tempo design, and a pinned theory that JOI was killed by Charles Tavis
- Infinite Jest Around the World: Translating DFW's 1,000 Page Mega-Novel
- L'infinie comédie et la tâche ingrate du traducteur
- 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)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 04: I just need to put the book down and go for a walk — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 198–306 (Joelle's overdose, the Schacht match, Ennet House, Orin's backstory, Poor Tony)
- The Great Concavity Ep. 18: Sean Pratt — narrating the Infinite Jest audiobook (56 hours, the endnotes controversy, and tempo as design)
- Traduire « Infinite Jest »
- ZEIT Online interview with DFW (January 2007) — The Sound of Thought (Howling Fantods English back-translation)
- Zehn Wahrheiten: Ich musste das Falsche richtig falsch übersetzen