Discombobulated again by how I managed to stay ahead of Infinite Summer’s schedule and yet behind its emotional and intellectual curve.
So though I have more quotes of the day for you from the novel itself, today I give you a pastiche of the Guides’ synergy at the end of this fascinating, compelling, and comforting summer [...]
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22 September 2009
Infinite summer
16 September 2009
IJ quote of the day 57-60
Oooh, I’m in big trouble. I’m way behind on my quotes. In my own defense, the last 100 pages of this novel read like trying to hike down a sheer cliff that’s been greased with WD-40. Talk about payoff.
The speedy descent of the novel, Wallace’s deathiversary, a precocious preschooler (when, when will the waiting [...]
9 September 2009
SF plans this month
Kim Cogan opens a new solo show at the Hespe in Union Square. Come on out because his work is absolutely breathtaking. Opening Sept. 10. Check Kim’s blog or the Hespe’s site for more info. (He has a show in New York while I’m there in November, so I hope to see him at [...]
2 September 2009
IJ quote of the day 52
Mario and the Moms.
I know Orin argues vehemently, as does his old buddy, the recluse whose name I don’t feel like dredging up, that Avril is manipulative or absent or something other than human and trying her best. And I’ll tell you something, as a mom, that scene 761-769 is touching and sweet: two [...]
1 September 2009
IJ quote of the day 51
La Mont Chu, worried about the Eschatonial consequences for the Buddies, tries to get info out of Mario. And after nine full back-and-forth where filmmaker is talking like a director and Chu is staying in character, we hear:
‘Jesus, Mario, it’s like trying to talk to a rock with you sometimes.’
‘This is going very well!’ [...]
30 August 2009
IJ quote of the day 50
So far behind. Have no idea what to focus on. Thinking through pudding. Mmmmm. pudding.
Anyway. highlight quotes from the days and days I’ve missed…
Poor Tony pathos at a new low:
“Krause whimpered raggedly and flew west, up on his bloody toes, hearing his breath off both alley walls, negotiating broken glass the the homeless supine, hearing [...]
26 August 2009
IJ quote of the day 48
There isn’t a line, really, from 694-699 that I didn’t star or underline or flag or highlight or take a deep breath and read again.
Kate Gompert narrates the difference between anhedonia and psychic depression. As it relates to happiness, to the world becoming a map. As it relates to Hal’s understanding of his father’s suicide. [...]
25 August 2009
IJ quote of the day 47
Wallace’s scene shifts often represent ripping the reader out of one state of mind and cramming her into another, and as such require masterful transitions.
Two such transitions rock my world:
“Poor Tony Krause had a seizure on the T” (299) is possibly the best transition in the whole novel, because it sets the stage for the [...]
24 August 2009
IJ quote of the day 46
“Her smile was rictal and showed confused teeth” (674).
Love the whole Poutrincourt/Steepley/deLint scene. But really love that sentence.
22 August 2009
IJ quote of the day 45
Been a while. I’ve been captured by the great apathy monster and could not give a flying fig newton about blogging or quoting.
But, it seems time to sink into the depths with Wallace, to the description of what an intentional fallacy argument might suggest was a reality in Wallace’s life. Here’s the first heart [...]
