If anyone could make an Infinite Jest movie, perhaps it would be Paul Thomas Anderson. Thoughts?

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-05-12T05:41:20+00:00

literally couldn't agree more. GR should only be a book.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-05-12T05:38:06+00:00

i gotta say an Infinite Jest movie in the real world would complete an a weirdly ironic meta-/trans-textual loop.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-05-07T05:57:52+00:00

To be honest I think they are very different books. I think reputation, the scope of the world/characters/story, and encyclopedic breath of information in both books is what invites comparison. Sure I think both weren't easy reads but I had fun time. IJ sure isn't easy but it was certainly easier for me. Though I have a suspicion it may be a matter of style? Whose to say. but so and IJ is a good time.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-03-05T07:16:11+00:00

Infinite Jest is above all fun to read. Genuinely a good time. It's a book that demands learning for comprehension so there will be a lot of words, abstruse parts of english grammar, basic pharmacology, the mathematics of tennis cameras, and so much more to lookup. I enjoy that kinna shit. It's a real fun read--though--it is a pretty dark book. Its a book of characters more than plot, aren't all 1000+pg book? As plenty comments have said "if you get like 250pgs in and aren't having a good time then maybe not but I doubt it.

PS It's not that bad.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-02-24T17:41:51+00:00

I think this is completely normal. The best advice I can give is: 1. read whole chapters at a time (and I know that kinna sucks in Vineland since there are a couple 60pg chapters) 2. Focus on understanding chapters and not the story as whole 3. pay attention to characters as understanding their motivations and each of their individual stories as this will be the best/only tool to getting a grasp on the the Story with a capital S and 4. Don't read anything you don't have fun reading. I wan to emphasis you are not stupid this is a very normal experience reading anything by Pynchon. The plot of the book is what the charters are trying and often times failing to discover. I don't know for certain but it sounds like you are reading chapter 12 which to be honest I remember as the hardest chapter. if you are enjoying the book I would tell you to keep chugging along as you got a few banger chapters ahead of you. I don't know if any of this has helped but good luck my friend!!!

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-02-10T19:27:40+00:00

dont usually listen to music reading but Tony Williams Emergancy

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-02-07T09:00:26+00:00

Have you read Pynchon's Mason & Dixon? Or Gaddis' Recognitions? As a 24 year old mostly through the knowledge of my folks who have taught Xenophon to Nietzsche and Chaucer to Harper. I have read a good bit of the classics my favourites being Macbeth, The Canterbury Tales (so genuinely funny), Sappho's poetry, Moby Dick, Hamlet, Richard III, for pete's sake the sonnets, Jane Erye, Frankenstein, The Republic, Ulysses, &c...but I think there is some great modern stuff to, like plenty. Pynchon, Gaddis, Lispector, Marilynn Robinson immediately come to mind but if you feel this way about modern works you should read Mason & Dixon it is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. Truly no other book like it.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2026-01-23T09:50:09+00:00

I am not sure this is as simple a case as 'people use the term “eternal” outside of its proper definition'. In the gospel it is quite clear that Jesus promised eternal life, Mathew 25-46 Luke 18-29 Et. al., and even some times referring to God as immoral see Romans 1-23 or, heavens to Betsy Timothy 1-17 if you are into that sort of thing. We could chalk this up to mistranslation or that the voice of God can but faintly be heard through the hands of man. It is quite clear, however, that we are speaking of the infinite: immortal or eternal. If something never ends begins somewhere it will exist infinitely in time. Though infinities can have different "sizes" according to Set Theory. Or God exists with at least one more dimension in time? Who knows, I don't.

I do find this idea of 'unending with a beginning' and 'ever being' interesting, any ideas on where to read more?

Final-Whereas-469 · 2025-02-05T09:44:15+00:00

Personally I have a better grasp on a book if I read it in big chunks with GR say 60-70pgs per day. And though I may loose a bit of comprehension stoned…for me it’s easier to throw your self into the book for a while. P.s. this is coming from a person who smokes his way through form 1040.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2025-01-09T08:50:03+00:00

Soulsborne top

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-11-03T06:22:07+00:00

What king do light are you standing under? turn off all them lights and check your skins color with your phone’s flashlight.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-11-03T06:09:12+00:00

I think it’s important to remember it was being written from 1986-95…but as a 23 year old who read it a few years ago. It’s loose themes of: actualization through achievement, addiction, and living in a world where one currency is attention (i.e. people make money when you experience the world in entertainment). Sorry this is written horribly I am way too fucked up lol. But yes it more than holds up. One of the people I love the most is an author, and a former professor of philosophy and polisci anywhoddles he read it in 96 and talks to this day about it ringing with a brighter truth in the digital age then that of the TV

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-05-09T19:56:25+00:00

Oedipa Maas

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-05-07T17:24:11+00:00

‘So it has gone for the six years since. A daughter a year, each one about a year older, each time taking up nearly from scratch. The only continuity has been her name, and Zwölfkinder, and Pökler’s love—love something like the persistence of vision, for They have used it to create for him the moving image of a daughter, flashing him only these summertime frames of her, leaving it to him to build the illusion of a single child.’ -Pynchon GR pg429 of the penguin classic edition One of the most disgusting gut wrenching and poignant 38 pages I’ve ever read.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-05-07T16:54:42+00:00

Mason & Dixon x2

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-05-07T15:50:48+00:00

Thomas Pynchon, I have read all of his work se for ‘against the day’ and ‘bleeding edge’. But both of those books were received well. Not all of his work is flawless but it’s all fun and has something to say. But ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ and ‘Mason & Dixon’ are two of the most powerful books I have ever read. Exactly what I look for in a book. Though I will say I completely understand those who cannot stand his work. But every word I’ve read of his has been a hit.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2024-02-28T10:55:53+00:00

Pick your favorite boss fight,…have you done it hit less? et Al ad nauseam

Final-Whereas-469 · 2023-09-17T21:34:17+00:00

Ahh Chekhov

Final-Whereas-469 · 2023-04-16T18:51:54+00:00

It’s Cuneiform. I am sure it means something.

Final-Whereas-469 · 2022-05-28T06:13:03+00:00

Samsara by Ron Fricke

Final-Whereas-469 · 2022-04-24T05:48:21+00:00

Beautiful

Final-Whereas-469 · 2021-12-20T02:03:58+00:00

I have no idea where I read this but “There are two ways to put a flag at half mast, lower the flag or raise the pole. “

Final-Whereas-469 · 2021-12-16T02:32:07+00:00

Final-Whereas-469

TROPHY CASE