Infinite Reno

INFINITE SUMMER 2018 - Reading Infinite Jest in the Biggest Little City of Reno, NV

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Infinite Summer 2018

Starting over in 2018!

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The game's object is to jump last and land still fully limbed upon the opposite embankment.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p1060(304)

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...the Wheelchair Assassins at these all too publicly familiar assassinations materializing, quote "as if from nowhere" unquote, masters of stealth, striking terror into prominent, Canadian hearts, affording no warning excepting the ominous squeak of slow wheels, striking swiftly and without warning, assassinating prominent Canadians and then dissolving back into the dark night ... striking always at night, a type of preformative signature, to strike at night only, leaving behind only sinuous networks of thin, double tracks in snow, dew, leaves, or earth, as performative signatures, such that a double sinuous S shaped line across the traditional fleur-de-lis motif of Quebecois Separatism is the A.F.R. cell's standard, its escutcheon or "symbol," if you will, in their infrequent and always hostile communiques to the administration of Canada and O.N.A.N. Such that, quote "to hear the squeak," unquote is now an understood euphemismic locution among officials highly placed in Quebcois, Canadian, and O.N.A.N.ite power structures for instant, terrifying, and violent death.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p1056-1057(304)

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sobriquet

so·bri·quet /ˈsōbriˌkā,-ˌket/

noun noun: sobriquet; plural noun: sobriquets; noun: soubriquet; plural noun: soubriquets

a person's nickname.

Origin: mid 17th century: French, originally in the sense ‘tap under the chin,’ of unknown origin.

p.1056(304)

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...that the prenominate oversized infants reputedly do exist, are anomalous and huge, grow but do not develop, feed on the abundance of annularly available edibles the overgrowth periods in the region represent, do deposit titanically outsized scat, and presumably do crawl thunderously about, occasionally sallying south of murated retention lines and into populated areas of New Engand.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p1056(304)

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Almost as little of irreproachable scholarly definitiveness is known about the infamous Separatist “Wheelchair Assassins” (Les Assassins des Fanteuils Rollents or A.F.R.s) of southwestern Quebec as is accepted as axiomatic about the herds of oversized “Feral Infants” allegedly reputed to inhabit the periodically overinhabitable forested sections of the eastern Reconfiguration.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p1055(304)

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...Cantor being a 1900s-era set-theorist (Geman also) and more or less founder of transfinite mathematics, the man who proved some infinites were bigger than other infinities, and whose 1905-ish Diagonal Proof demonstrated that there can be an infinity of things between any two things no matter how close together two things are, which D. Proof deeply informed Dr. J. Incandenza's sense of the transstatistical aesthetics of serious tennis.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p995(35)

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concupiscence

con·cu·pis·cence /känˈkyo͞opisəns,kən-/

noun formal noun: concupiscence

strong sexual desire; lust.

Origin: Middle English: via Old French from late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscent- ‘beginning to desire,’ from the verb concupiscere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + cupere ‘to desire.’

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Three memory-neurons (Fukuoka-Hearn, Heath, Voorheis (w/polyurethane costumes)) in the Inferior frontal gyrus of a man's (Watt's) brain fight heroically to prevent their displacement by new memory-neurons as the man undergoes intensive psychoanalysis.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p.987(24)

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lachrymose

lach·ry·mose /ˈlakrəˌmōs,-ˌmōz/

adjective formal literary adjective: lachrymose

tearful or given to weeping. "she was pink-eyed and lachrymose"

inducing tears; sad. "a lachrymose children's classic"

Origin: mid 17th century (in the sense ‘like tears; liable to exude in drops’): from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima ‘tear.’

p.988

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sui testator

LATIN

a translation might be, "of its [original] viewer"; 'testator' does mean 'one who makes a will,' but also 'one who bears witness,' which Wallace may have intended to connote the burden of this particular cartridge.

p.993(24)

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Infinite Jest Filmography

From James O. Incandenza: A Filmography (p985-993[24]):

Infinite Jest (I). B.S. Meniscus Films, Ltd. Judith Fukuoka-Hearn; 16/35 mm.; 90(?) minutes; black and white; silent. Incandenza’s unfinished and unseen first attempt at commercial entertainment. UNRELEASED

Infinite Jest (II). B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Pam Heath; 35/78 mm.; 90(?) minutes; black and white; silent. Unfinished, unseen attempt at remake of Infinite Jest (I). UNRELEASED

Infinite Jest (III). B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Uncredited cast; 16/35 mm.; color; sound. Unfinished, unseen remake of Infinite Jest (I), (II). UNRELEASED

Infinite Jest (IV). Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Pam Heath (?), ‘Madame Psychosis’(?); 78 mm.; 90 minutes(?); color; sound. Unfinished, unseen attempt at completion f Infinite Jest (III). UNRELEASED

Infinite Jest (V?). Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. ‘Madame Psychosis’; no other definitive data. Thorny problem for archivists. Incandenza’s last film, Incandenza’s death occurring during its post-production. Most archival authorities list as unfinished, unseen. Some list as completion of Infinite Jest (IV), for which Incandenza also used ‘Psychosis,’ thus list the film under Incandenza’s output for Y.T.M.P. Thought no scholarly synopsis or report of viewing exists, two short essays in different issues of Cartridge Quarterly East refer to the film as ‘extraordinary’ and ‘far and away [James O. Incandenza’s] most entertaining and compelling work.’ West Coast archivists list the film’s gauge as ‘16 . . . 78 . . . n mm.,’ basing the gauge on critical allusions to ‘radical experiments in viewers’ optical perspective and context’ as IJ(V?)’s distinctive feature. Though Canadian archivist Tête-Bêche lists the film as completed and privately distributed by P.Y.E.U. through posthumous provisions in the filmmaker’s will, all other comprehensive filmographies have the film either unfinished or UNRELEASED, it’s Master cartidge either destroyed or vaulted sui testator.

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Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans, or Southern black widow or simply black widow, is a highly venomous species of spider in the genus Latrodectus. They are well known for the distinctive black and red coloring of the female of the species that will occasionally eat her mate after reproduction. The species is native to North America. The venom is seldom fatal to healthy humans.

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...M.I.T. language riots of B.S. 1997.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p987(24)

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incunabular

in·cu·nab·u·lum /ˌinkyəˈnabyələm/

noun plural noun: incunabula

an early printed book, especially one printed before 1501.

Origin: early 19th century: from Latin incunabula (neuter plural), ‘swaddling clothes, cradle,’ fromin- ‘into’ + cunae ‘cradle.’

p.986(24)

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The Bureau of Alcohol/Tobacco/Firearms, at that time under the temporary aegis of the United States Office of Unspecified Services.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p985(15)