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  • johnny—
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  • Tim Horvath—
    Yeah, man, if you’re reading Infinite Jest your Kindle ought to expand like a blooming onion or a book dunked in water. For a while no one I knew had finished IJ, and then one day I spotted a young woman close to the finish. She had less than a hundred pages to go. I...
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    #1 is exactly the thing that makes me think I’ll never get one: there’s no difference in the HEFT of reading War and Peace or Infinite Jest and Jesus’ Son or A Personal Matter. The weight of the pages, left and right, is like driving across country knowing you’ve...
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    so ZZZZIPP is to HTMLGIANT what ZODIACMOTHERFUCKER is to the AV Club comments sections? with the all-caps, and the ironical self-referential bullshit? awesome. I don’t come here often, I think for some reason I stopped reading this site after the redesign, whenever that was (like...
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    It’s a direct copy in many ways of The Lost Generation, a video first posted on the youtubes two years ago: http://youtu.be/42E2fAWM6rA Yeah, sure, you can say it’s OK to copy something — and usually i’d be totally fine about it — but this is too similar...
  • zusya—
    to: stephen, et. al re: seriousness there’s a treasure trove of things in life worth taking seriously, and i imagine that a lot of the people that will even end up reading what i’m writing in this space will feel the same way, especially when it comes to whatever-you-think...
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    your points seem very fair. thanks, tim. you’re right that DFW’s work is at times a commentary on the nature of commentary, although i think the end goal is to describe “what it feels like to be a fucking human being,” which is also tao’s end goal,...
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