Saturday, October 3, 2009

I Finished!

And, but, so, I finished reading Infinite Jest last night and wow. I have the urge to start again and fill in the gaps - the book is meant to be read in a circle I think, I have this image of a snake swallowing its tail. I just don't have the time or the emotional fortitude (there is a good deal of pain in the pages and the images are not fleeting).

I saved so many notes;

at 68%, location 17627-33 Kindle: "Some people, from what I've seen, Boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and intense. They try to dominate the person they lie to. The person to whom they're lying. Another type becomes fluttery and insubstantial and punctuates his lie with little self-deprecating motions and sounds, as if credulity were the same as pity. Some bury the lie in so many digressions and asides that they like try to slip the lie in there through all the extraneous data like a tiny bug through a windowscreen."

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