I think DFW would appreciate the irony, apparently my blog entry which I e-mailed earlier today was too long to successfully post!, or it was too long with the picture attached, which threw it over the virtual cliff. I hit send and the blue check mark appeared on my BlackBerry screen which is supposed to reassure me the e-mail went, unlike the red x meaning you failed. But, when I logged on to Blogger my post was not there, and I cleared my cache and visited Blogger Help and let time pass and refreshed the page and still no post.
Ok, so I will try again.
I read before I go to sleep every night and I read Infinite Jest every night now as I am keeping up with the pace at Infinite Summer; I am more than halfway through and last night was distressing because one of the Ennet house characters, Randy Lenz, has been killing animals which puts horrible images in my mind that I do not want there at all especially before DREAMING however skipping pages feels like cheating and also David is saying something important here: about the impulses of this character and agitation and rage and the twisted pursuit of "resolution" that the character is pursuing, a release of a very evil sort: "the more basically Powerless an individual feels, the more the likelihood for the propensity for violent acting-out - and Lenz found the observation to be sound." 1
End Note 1: see "the unresolved Powerless Rage issues" and see also "he has numerous aspects and experiences to mull over and issues to organize and mull, and (like many people hardwired for organic stimulants) talking is sort of Lenz's way of thinking."
End Note 2: I sure wish all Lenz did was talk it would be easier to take.
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