6/30/2023 0 Comments Infinite jest![]() As with the novel, the play was very much a test of endurance. There weren’t, as far as I could tell, any casualties the day I took this infinite theater tour, though a good number of my 150 fellow travelers dropped out before the sun came up. It’s Wallace-style capital-E Entertainment, whose primary purpose isn’t to bring enjoyment-though it can be enjoyable-but to captivate, to incapacitate, like the novel’s deadly eponymous film whose viewers are so thoroughly entertained that they cease to eat, drink, sleep and, eventually, live. This isn’t entertainment in the traditional sense. True to the novel, quite a few of the play’s scenes have gone on far too long. ![]() The youngest son of the Incandenza family, he is close to both of his older brothers, Orin and Mario. ![]() And the actor sharing his history of teen addiction to Quaaludes and Hefenreffer-brand beer is droning on far too long and starting to give me the howling fantods. Quotes Infinite Jest Characters Hal Incandenza Hal Incandenza Hal Incandenza is the closest the book comes to having a protagonist. But so we’re at this AA meeting in a Boston school cafeteria, which in this case is the cultural center of a city quarter that was drawn up from scratch in the 1960s in the far, far north of Berlin, like practically halfway to the Baltic, this sticks-of-the-sticks-type section of town. ![]()
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