Friday, September 25, 2009

vocabulary


vocabulary from infinite jest found at erasing.

Monday, September 21, 2009

i was not wrong


infinite jest. Listening to DFW talk on the radio to Michael Silverblatt on kcrw. Silverblatt, who has a slightly retarded but innocent voice which is extremely likable, asks DFW if the book has been structured like an algorithm and DFW says that it has: Sierpinski Tirangle, which is a beautiful thing.

i do apologize but you have to click on the triangle for the gif to work.

infinite jest




i always like looking for ideas for characters, for stories, but an annoying and impossible trait of mine is that i want it to be original. For instance a character that for ever looks at the remnants upon their soiled tissue. This has been in many books but originality, just needs to shift a little to be new. while reading David Foster Wallaces' Infinite Jest i, like so many others, found something beautiful: Steeply watched Marathe blow one nostril into the handkerchief. Marathe was one of the rare types who did not examine the hankie after he blew. i will be posting more about this book.

the best thing from "bolt"

It contains the romanticism of an action scene but then shatters it with the banal and total inconsequential shot of a cup falling.