Infinite Jesticulating

Out of context quotes of "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace.

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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it

Year of Glad, Page 5

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In the bathroom his throat suddenly closed and he wept hard for two or three seconds before the weeping stopped abruptly and he could not get it to start again.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 25

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'What's an insomniac?' 'Someone who rooms with you, kid, that's for sure.'

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 41

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Which he was sure an unpleasant-fact specialist like Randi would point out had implications that were not good.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 22

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'You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?'

Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad, Page 28

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'Mario, you and I are mysterious to each other. We countenance each other from either side of some unbridgeable difference on this issue. Let's lie very quietly and ponder this.'

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 41

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Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 49

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A lean yellowish man whose fixed smile nevertheless has the impermanent quality of something stamped into uncooperative material.

Year of Glad, Page 3

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He wants his bib ironed and laid out by the tray at the ready, and he wants the living room's teleputer booted and warmed up and the evening's entertainment cartridges already selected and arranged and lined up in the dock ready for remote insertion into the viewer's drive.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 34

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It's funny what you don't recall.

Est. 1997, Page 10

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'Boo, I kicked a kid's ass is all. End of story. I don't think it's good to rehash it when I've kicked somebody's ass. It's like a dignity thing.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 40

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E.T.A. is abundantly, embranchingly tunnelled. This is by design.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 49

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People who know Hal gets regularly covertly high: - Michael Pemulis (also gets high) - Jim Struck (also gets high) - Bridget C. Boone (also gets high) - Jim Troeltsch (also gets high) - Trevor Axford (also gets high) - Ted Schacht (occasionally gets high in a medicinal or touristic way) - Ortho 'The Darkness' Stice (occasionally gets high in a medicinal or touristic way) People who might know Hal gets regularly covertly high: - Kyle D. Coyle (possibly knows) - Tall Paul Shaw (possibly knows) - Frannie Unwin (remote possibility they know) - Bernadette Longley (not impossible that they know) - Unpleasant K. Freer (might have their suspicions) - Orin Incandenza (mysteriously, even long-distance, seems to know more than he's coming right out and saying, unless Hal's reading more into some of the phone-comments than are there) People who Hal has gotten covertly high with: - Michael Pemulis

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 49-50

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My eyes are closed; the room is silent. 'I cannot make myself understood, now'.

Year of Glad, Page 10

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'Are you asleep?' 'Booboo, we've been over this. I can't be asleep if we're talking.'

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 40

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To say nothing of the arresting image of the idolatrous West's most famous and self-congratulating idol, the colossal Libertine Statue, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper, a hilariously apposite image popular in the news photos of so many international journals.

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 33

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- Soda - Oreos - Bread - Sandwich meat - Mayonnaise - Tomatoes - M&M's - Almost Home cookies - Ice cream - A Pepperidge Farm frozen chocolate cake - Four cans of canned chocolate frosting to be eaten with a large spoon

Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, Page 20