001_David Foster Wallace 'Infinite Jest'.
Scenes
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
page 49_Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high.
Y.D.A.U. Outcropping Northwest of Tucson AZ USA
page 87_He sat alone above the desert, redly backlit and framed in shale, watching very yellow payloaders crawl over the beaten dirt of some U.S.A. construction site several km. to the southeast.
page 638_Steeply said 'My own father, sometime around midlife. We watched him get consumed with a sort of entertainment. It wasn't pretty. I was never sure how it started or what it was about... But nothing like this sort of Entertainment - a plain old television program... The program in question was called "M*A*S*H." The title was an acronym, not a command. As a boy I can recall some confusion on this point.'
Late October Y.D.A.U. Between Mario Incandenza and Madame Psychosis
page 181+_And he is a fanatical listener/ observer. He treats the lavish Tatsuoka fringe-FM-band tuner in the living room of the Headmaster's House like kids of three generations past, listening the way other kids watch TP, opting for mono and sitting right up close to one of the speakers with his head cocked dog-like, listening, staring into that special pocket of near-middle distance reserved for the serious listener.
...,the darkly revered Madame Psychosis, whose cameo shadow is just visible outside the booth's thick glass, her screen half obscuring the on-air studio's bank of phones, checking cueing and transition for the Thursday edition. She is hidden from all view by a jointed triptych screen of cream chiffon that glows red and green in the lights of the phone bank and the cueing panel's dials and frames her silhouette. Her silhouette is cleanly limned against the screen, sitting cross-legged in its insectile microscopic headset, smoking.
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