Mark, Apologies for the unnecessary brackets on my last post. Hopefully I can do a better job of remembering that I only need to do that for setting up a link on Reddit. We officially have comments in the Introductions section of our Reddit— and it is only January 20th! Sorry—I borked the URL for the picture of the bookmark in that previous comment. Are you reading the physical edition? Thanks, Jenni! The 2 bookmark suggestion is excellent. Check it out! Thanks, Rob. I just heard about this yesterday—so that was ultra fast.
I think one of our participants thought it up…. Great tips, Matt. Thanks for re-posting and extending from Infinite Summer. Even your intro about breaking the book up into its smaller stand-alone stories is a nice way to gear up for this journey.
Nice work, Matt! Go on beach vacation. Intend to finally make progress on book during cross-country flight. Take too many barbiturates.
Spend years wondering what inability to finish book says about ability to lead successful, happy life. Yell at book for eating away at confidence. Destroy all relationships. Come home late one night. Stare at self in mirror. Become novelist and frequently discuss monumental influence of Wallace on own work.
Use proceeds from own writing career to open literary foundation dedicated to hero, Wallace. Skip ribbon-cutting ceremony to dodge questions. Once, I could have attributed this to similar types of people enjoying certain authors. Now I worried that the book itself — or the task of reading it - had irreparably damaged them, and would do the same to me. Joe gave me a few tips for my reading, pointing me towards support blogs and detailing a solution he had come up with for the issue of its physical size - sawing it into thirds.
That was only the beginning. At first, I felt that I was lost in a strange, comma-less alternate universe, staring at pages like word jumbles, struggling to find the stories that they contained. Soon, I found that the alternate universe was very funny, and that, though I did not totally understand who all these people were, I was quite attached to them.
I began to believe that my dreams were taking place in this other world, and I woke up missing the Incandenzas, reaching for the book before I reached for my phone.
My social life disappeared, and my relationships suffered. And he was literally self-conscious about it. He first donned the bandanna during his time in Tucson to keep his sweat from dripping onto the paper he was writing on. Hal too is losing control of what he is saying, but his manifestations are much less melodic. What does it all mean?
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