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the title “Infinite Jest” is a Hamlet quotation (the Yorick graveyard scene), and rendering it in Dutch runs…

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Did you know? Wallace told Lydon that his AA and halfway-house knowledge was research, and called the novel hardly autobiographical — a framing the reissued interview page flatly corrects, noting that he came to AA and Granada House "not as a researcher but as a patient" (wbur-connection-1996-lydon).